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By  the  Right  Reverend  HORATIO  POTTER,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  D.  C.  L., 

BISHOP  OF  NEW-YORK. 


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My  Beethren  of  the  Clergy  and  of  the  Laity  : 

Once  more,  and  probably  for  the  last  time,  the  Represen- 
tatives of  the  Chmxh  within  the  present  limits  of  the  Diocese 
of  New- York,  are  assembled  together  for  united  counsel  as 
members  of  the  same  Diocese.     For  thirty  years,  that  is, 
since  the  erection  of  the  Western  Diocese  out  of  a  part  of 
tlie  old  Diocese  of  New-York,  we  have  been  accustomed  to 
meet  annually,  to  listen  to  reports  of  the  progress  of  the 
Church,  to  provide  more  efficient  means  for  promoting  its 
growth,  to  take  order  in  things  pertaining  to  its  government 
and  discipline,  and  at  the  same  time  to  renew  our  affectionate 
interest  in  each  other,  as  we  met  face  to  face,  hand  to  hand  , 
commingling  in  devotion  to  the  dearest  and  most  sacred  o 
all  objects.     From  the  banks  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  and  from 
the  borders  of  Lake  Champlain,  from  the  valleys  of  the  Sus- 
quehanna, the  Delaware,  the  Mohawk,  from  the  old  coun- 
ties that  send  their  tributaries  to  the  Hudson,  and  from  the 
two  islands  that  stand  sentinels  at  the  gate  of  our  magnificent 
harbor,  our  brethren.  Clerical  and  Lay,  have  once  every  year 
flocked  together  that  they  might  see  each  other's  faces  once 
more,  and  take  part  in  the  Council  of  their  beloved  Church. 

And,  my  brethren,  if  at  times  in  the  course  of  all  these 


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years,  there  have  been  honest  differences  of  opinion  on  sub- 
ordinate questions,  as  there  may  legitimately  be  in  every 
ecclesiastical  body,  however  at  unity  in  great  things,  and  if 
those  differences  of  opinion  sometimes  gave  rise  to  earnest 
and  even  sharp  debate,  making  public  the  divergency  of 
thought  and  feeling :  yet  all  those  public  and  visible  collisions 
were  as  nothing  compared  with  the  unnumbered  outpourings 
of  heart  to  heart  in  private,  the  glowing  salutations,  the  loving 
conferences,  the  histories  exchanged  of  the  year's  labors, 
trials,  joys,  sorrows, — the  unseen  cementing  together  of  in- 
dividual souls  as  they  touched  in  secret  upon  their  common 
•duties,  responsibilities,  aims,  affections,  hopes, — I  say  that 
compared  with  this  gracious  work,  which  went  on  in  private 
— all  unseen,  untrumpeted  to  the  world — this  reunion  and 
glowing  communion  of  kindred  souls,  in  which  affections 
were  warmed,  elevated,  purified,  in  which  the  thoughts  were 
enlarged,  in  which  the  courage  and  appetite  for  work  were 
renewed,  compared  with  that  mighty  hidden  dealing  of  heart 
with  heart  for  good,  the  occasional  public  collisions,  however 
noisy  and  however  much  to  be  deprecated,  were  in  reality  of 
little  account. 

But  the  outward  and  visible  collisions  were  thino-s  of  which 
the  world  could  take  note.  They  were  things  which  the 
world  is  always  on  the  watch  to  discover  and  proclaim,  and 
which  the  world  is  very  apt  to  exaggerate  and  misinterpret. 
But  the  private  commimings  of  heart  with  heart,  which  at- 
tended each  one  of  those  gathered  councils,  were  things 
veiled  from  the  observation  of  the  worlds  To  the  public 
reporter,  to  the  exterior  and  distant  spectator,  they  were  un- 
known ;  they  were  as  if  they  had  never  been.  A  few  out- 
ward and  exceptional  manifestations,  these  were  seized  upon 
to  make  a  part  of  the  news  of  the  day — these  supplied  an 
exciting  theme  for  public  and  private  comment — were  treated 
as  if  they  were  all  the  things  needful  to  be  known,  in  order 
to  fiilly  comprehend  the  spirit  of  the  Body  ;  while  the  great 
and  precious  things  that  took  place  in  private  were  unthought 
of,  absolutely  unknown,  and  of  course  could  enter  in  no  way 


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into  the  estimate  formed  by  the  world  of  the  Church's  charac- 
ter and  of  the  influence  of  her  Councils. 

And  it  must  be  added,  that  even  of  things  which  were 
public  and  visible,  as  making  part  of  the  public  pro- 
ceedings, even  of  them  those  features  which  were  least  im- 
portant were  apt  to  be  most  noticed.  The  doings  which 
were  mostly  casual  and  ephemeral,  but  which  presented 
salient  points,  points  in  some  degree  intelligible  to  the 
uninformed  observer ;  they  were  the  things  most  apt  to  be 
seized  upon  and  held  up  before- the  public  for  discussion, 
while  tlie  quiet,  yet  vital,  work  of  the  Body— that  which 
gave  it  life  and  power— seemed  of  little  interest,  much  of  it 
obscure,  scarcely  worthy  of  notice. 

So  is  it  ever.     The  hidden  things,  or  the  things  which 
escape  notice,  as  being  matters  of  course,  are  ever  more  im- 
portant than  the  exceptional  things,  which  make  themselves 
conspicuously  visible  upon  the  surface.     It  is  so  in  the  natu- 
ral world.     It  is  so  in  national  life.     Beneath  the  surface,  in 
the  things  which  are  mostly  private,  in  the  ongoings  of  do- 
mestic life,  in  the  moral  tone  and  texture  of  the  every-day 
work  and  business  of  the  million,  in  the  common  sentiment^s 
respecting  truth  and  duty,  which  pervade  the  whole  social 
atmosphere,— the  atmosphere  in  which  the  young  live  and 
niove  and  have  their  being  as  they  grow  up,— in  tliese  there 
is  something  more  potential  in  forming  the  heart  of  the  na- 
tion, in  ensuring  its  tranquillity  and  greatness,  or  in  prepar- 
ing it  for  weakness,  misery  and  ruin,  than  in  any  of  those 
political  contests,  which  attract  so  much  attention,  and  from 
time  to  time  so  agitate  the  surface  of  the  nation's  life.     And 
so  superficial  observers,  looking  away  from  their  own  to  an- 
other nation,  are  ever  prone  to  form  grossly  erroneous  esti- 
mates of  the  significance  of  political  events  in  that  nation  and 
of  the  real  character  of  its  life.     They  see  the  bubbles  on  the 
surface,  but  not  the  untroubled  depths  beneath,  nor  the  trea-  * 
sures  they  contain. 

How  true  this  is  of  the  Church,  no  one  needs  to  be  re- 
minded. Her  vitality  and  her  strength  are  mostly  in  things 
which  in  their  essence  and  influence  are  hidden  from  the  views 


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of  the  exterior  observers.     Her  daily  ministrations,  her  quiet 
and  orderly  worship,  which,  unconsciously  to  the  recipient, 
works  truth  and  sober  lessons  of  duty  into  the  very  heart 
and  conscience  of  her  children,  her  means  of  grace,  instmct 
with  a  divine  power,  the  spirit  of  loving  faith  and  assurance 
in  which  her  worshippers  are  trained  more  by  her  inward 
life  than  by  her  express  teaching,  which  loving  faith  and 
assurance  keeps  them  quiet  and  unmoved  amid  the  excite- 
ments and  changes  that  solicit  their  notice,  the  settled  con- 
viction widespread  among  her  people,  that  in  the  Truth  and 
Cliurch  of  God  are  verities  fixed  and  immutable,  resting  upon 
better  foundations  than  the  judgment  of  any  individual  or  of 
any  generation,— verities  no  longer  needing  to  be  scrutinized 
and   demonstrated  anew  day  by  day,  but  standing  like  an 
eternal  rock  in  the  midst  of  the  surging  billows  of  this  world  ; 
these  are  the  things  which  make  the  Church  what  it  is,— 
things   with  which  no  stranger  can  intermeddle,— things 
which  in  their  operation  and  influence  are  to  the  exterior 
observer  veiled  mysteries  ;  and  yet  they  are  things  which 
must  be  rightly  understood  before  any  one  can  form  an  intel- 
ligent judgment  of  the  probable  effect  of  trials,  great  and 
small,  that  come  upon  the  Church.     What  wonder  then  that 
the  Church  should  be  forever  a  mystery  to  the  world,  her 
principles  misinterpreted,  her  policy  misjudged,  or  that  her 
onward  progress  should  be  over  and  through  the  midst  of 
prophecies  of   decay,   division   and  dissolution,   prophecies 
forever  reproduced,  and  forever  refuted  by  the  event  ?    Let  us 
be  humble,  let  us  be  charitable  and  loving  toward  all  within 
and  toward  all  without ;  let  us  be  patient,  after  the  example 
of  Him  who  rules  over  the  Church  ;  but  let  us  work  on,  each 
one  in  his  own  proper  sphere,  with  a  serene  and  lofty  confi- 
dence that  if  we  are  faithful  the  same  Divine  power,  the  same 
immutable  principles  that  have  been  our  salvation  in  the  past, 
shall  continue  to  be  our  all-sufficient  security  in  the  future. 
These  reflections,  too  far  extended,  perhaps,  have  been 
suggested  by  a  glance  at  the  history  of  the  Church  in  this 
Diocese,  during  the  thirty  years  of  work  and  growth  and 


THE  BISHOP  OP  NEW-YORK,   1868.  7 

communion  carried  on  within  our  present  limits.    In  a  few 
months  these  limits   will  probably  be  changed,  and  new 
organizations  will  have  been  formed.    At  the  close  of  this 
present  conference  we  separate,  some  of  us  never  to  meet 
again,  it  is  to  be  presumed,  as  members  of  the  same  Diocese 
Many  of  the  Clergy  and  of  the  Laity,  who  have  met  here  so 
often,  will  meet  here  no  more.     You  will  not  finally  separate, 
my  brethren,  however  much  you  may  approve  of  the  new 
arrangements,  without  some  friendly  regrets.   And  for  myself, 
cordially  as  I  concur  in  the  measures  now  about  to  be  con- 
summated,  I  cannot  think  of  the  beloved  Clergy  and  Laity 
of  the  districts  about  to  be  separated  from  us ;  I  cannot  think 
ol  the  numerous  parishes,  which  for  nearly  fourteen  years  I 
have  visited  again  and  again,  with  so  much  interest  and  so 
much  pleasure;  of  the  kind  hearts  ever  ready  with  a  cordial 
welcome   the  interesting  families,  the  engaging  characters, 
never  to  be  met  but  with  pleasure  and  profit,  the  places  which 
nature  and  art  have  made  so  lovely,   and  which  precious 
memories  have  made  so  dear,  I  cannot  think  of  visitino-  them 
no  more,  of  having  seen  most  of  them  for  the  last  time''  with- 
out  emotions  which  fill  the  heart  full,  but  which  I  must 
seek  to  restrain  rather  than  to  express.     God  most  merciful 
pour  out  His  blessings-the  rich  blessings  of  His  providence 
and  the  richer  blessings  of  His  grace  upon  all  those  beloved 
Uergy  and  Lay  people-upon  all  those  parishes,  those  fami- 
lies,  and  give  them  peace,  make  the  sunshine  of  His  love 
and  favor  to  rest  upon  all  their  dwellings !     The  gracious 
tord  cause  them  to  rejoice  in  His  salvation,  and  to  find  com- 
fort through  the  Holy  Ghost  in  the  day  when  trouble  and 
sorrow  shall  darken  their  windows  !    Blessed  and  adorable 
Saviour,  be  Tliou  tlieir  light,  be  Thou  their  stay,  their  refuse  ' 
To  visit  all  the  interior  portions  of  the  Diocese  durino-  the 
bummer  that  is  now  past-and  especially  every  parish"  and 
mission  station  in  the  districts  now  to  be  separated  from  us— 
was    through  the  last  winter  and  spring,  among  my  most 
decided   and  cherished  purposes.     I  wished  to  make  my 
parting  visit  particularly  minute  and  thorough.     But  Provi- 
dence  had  other  things  in  store  for  me,  and  I  was  forced  to 


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relinquish,  at  least  for  the  time,  a  considerable  portion  of 
my  intended  work.  At  length  the  day  came  when  I  could 
only  turn  again  to  my  Episcopal  duty  with  such  strength  as 
the  Master  might  give ;  and  1  employed  myself  in  visiting 
most  of  the  parishes  in  the  extreme  nortliern  and  western 
sections  of  the  Diocese,  until  it  became  needful  to  withdraw 
from  public  visitations,  in  order  to  arrange  and  prepare  mat- 
ters of  business  for  this  and  the  General  Convention. 

These  later  visitations  were  necessarily  at  short  notice. 
Owing  to  this  circumstance  a  few  of  them  failed  ;  but  the 
Clergy  did  all  that  the  nature  of  the  case  allowed,  and  in 
most  instances  the  results  were  highly  gratifying.  As  they 
were  considered  to  be  valedictory  visitations,  and  as  they 
were  made  at  a  period  when  the  sensitive  nature  could  not 
but  be  doubly  susceptible,  they  were  sorely  trying,  all  the 
more  so  from  the  extreme  kindness  of  the  Clergy  and  of  the 
people.  The  good  Lord  show  them  kindness  in  the  great 
day  of  His  coming  ! 

The  future  is  all  uncertain.  The  shadows  are  lengthening. 
Schemes  of  earthly  enjoyment  are  futile.  But  were  I  in- 
clined to  indulge  in  any  visions  of  temporal  gratification,  I 
should  be  tempted  most  of  all  to  please  myself  witli  the 
thought  of  returning  some  day  to  those  familiar  places — not 
oflScially,  but  as  an  old  friend  and  former  Bishop— to  renew 
the  impressions  of  the  past,  and  to  taste  again  the  soothing 
and  refreshing  kindness  so  often  experienced  in  the  years 
that  as  a  shadow  have  passed  away  ! 

Had  it  been  possible  to  continue  the  visitation  of  the  Dio- 
cese through  as  large  a  portion  of  the  year  as  has  been  usual 
for  several  years  past,  it  seems  probable  that  the  aggregate 
confirmations  would  have  far  exceeded  those  of  any  preceding 
year.  Notwithstanding  the  interruptions  before  referred  to, 
they  have  amounted  to  3,930.  Fourteen  candidates  for  Holy 
Orders  have  been  admitted  to  the  Diaconate.  Eleven  Dea- 
cons have  been  advanced  to  the  Priesthood.  Two  Churches 
have  been  consecrated. 

During  the  past  year  two  of  our  Bishops  have  been  re- 
moved by  death — the  Right  Reverend  John  Henry  Hopkins, 


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D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Bishop  of  Yerraont,  and  Presiding  Bishop : 
and  the  Eight  Reverend  Cicero  S.  Hawks,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of 
Missouri.  On  the  3d  day  of  June  I  had  the  satisfaction  of 
assisting  at  the  consecration  of  tlie  Rev.  W.  H.  A.  Bissell, 
D.  D.,  as  Bishop  of  Vermont — an  office  which  there  is  every 
reason  to  believe  that  he  will  fill  with  satisfaction  to  his 
Diocese,  and  with  usefulness  to  the  CImrch  at  large.  The 
Diocese  of  Missouri  having  failed  to  induce  the  Bishop  of 
Montana,  Idaho,  and  Utah  to  leave  his  severe  missionary 
field,  have  made  choice  for  their  new  Bishop  of  tlie  Rev.  C. 
F.  Robertson,  who  for  the  last  six  years  has  been  the  very 
earnest  and  successful  Rector  of  St.  Mark's,  Malone,  and  who 
at  the  time  of  his  election  to  the  Episcopate  of  Missouri  was 
about  removing  to  Batavia,  in  the  Western  Diocese.  This 
most  unsought  for  and  unexpected  call  to  an  arduous  and 
responsible  post  I  trust  he  will  be  induced  to  accept.  He 
has  not  yet  numbered  many  years  in  the  sacred  ministry  of 
the  Church,  but  he  has  been  well  tried  as  to  his  judgment 
and  capacity,  and  as  to  his  power  of  organizing  and  pushing 
on  Church  work,  not  only  in  his  own  parish,  but  also  in 
neighboring  places.  As  a  man  of  prayer,  living  with  a 
supreme  devotion  to  the  salvation  of  the  souls  within  reach 
of  his  ministry  ;  sound  and  scholarly  in  his  theology ;  too 
comprehensive  in  his  sympathies,  and  too  elevated  in  his 
spirit  to  provoke  party  animosity,  unless,  indeed,  *  it  be  a 
kind  of  party  feeling  that  will  insist  on  being  provoked; 
believing  him  to  be  such  a  man,  I  shall  rejoice  to  see  him 
carrying  his  loving  earnestness  through  a  vast  Diocese  like 
that  of  Missouri.  I  shall  rejoice  to  see  him,  young  as  he  is, 
sitting  in  our  House  of  Bishops. 

Reference  has  been  made  to  the  history  of  the  Church  in 
this  Diocese  during  the  last  thirty  years,  the  period  during 
which  it  has  been  contained  within  its  present  limits.  In 
1838,  the  time  of  the  formation  of  the  western  j3ortion  of 
the  State  into  a  separate  Diocese,  there  remained  in  this 
present  Diocese  of  New- York,  249  Clergymen  and  235  par- 
ishes  and  mission  stations.     There  are  now  446  Clergymen 


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and  333  parishes  apd  mission  stations.  In  1854:j  when  I  was 
called  to  the  charge  of  the  Diocese,  fourteen  years  ago,  there 
were  304  Clergymen  and  252  parishes  and  mission  stations  ; 
showing  an  increase  in  this  last  period  of  142  Clergymen  and 
98  parishes  and  mission  stations. 

There  has  been  not  only  growth  in  the  Church,  along 
with  the  increase  of  the  population,  but  there  has  been  in 
many  quarters  a  greatly  improved  feeling  from  without  to- 
ward the  Church,  and  a  much  more  frequent  expression  of 
desire  to  obtain  its  ministrations  in  places  where  before  they 
had  been  unknown.  A  few  months  since  a  Clergyman  re- 
siding in  a  rural  county  where  the  Church  had  been  until 
recently  little  known,  observed  to  me  that  twenty  years  ago 
it  was  almost  impossible  in  that  county  to  obtain  a  hearing 
for  the  Church ;  and  that  now  almost  every  little  village  was 
evincing  a  desire  to  gain  access  to  its  services. 

And  under  what  circumstances,  my  brethren,  has  this 
growth  of  the  Church,  and  this  increased  esteem  for  her  min- 
istrations and  order,  taken  place  ?  Certainly  not  at  a  time 
when  there  was  absolute  quiet  and  unbroken  unity  of  senti- 
ment on  all  points  within  the  Church  !  Certainly  not  at  a 
period  when  there  were  none  within  her  to  proclaim  her 
children  corrupt  in  doctrine  ;  none  without  her  to  denounce 
her  system  as  wanting  both  the  form  and  the  power  of  god- 
liness !  •  Certainly  not  in  happy  years,  when  there  were  no 
mistakes,  no  deficiencies,  for  a  candid  and  earnest  Church- 
man to  lament.  Far  from  it.  We  have  had  our  trials  and 
our  deficiencies.  And  now,  for  many  years,  we  have  been 
made  the  witnesses  of  a  most  remarkable  spectacle.  A  cer- 
tain amount  of  unfavorable  comment  in  the  non-Episcopal 
religious  press,  involving  'gross  misconceptions  and  uninten- 
tional misrepresentations  of  our  Church  and  its  doings,  is 
always  to  be  Qxpected.  And  within  our  Church,  as  there 
are  honest  difierences  of  opinion  on  matters  of  doctrine,  no 
reasonable  person  can  be  surprised  that  there  should  continue 
to  be  at  times,  as  there  always  has  been,  considerable  warmth 
of  discussion.     But  we  have  seen  for  several  years  something 


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more  than  this.     We  have  seen  within  our  own  Church  a 
combined  and  desperate  effort,  made  in  the  press  and  in  the 
pulpit,  to  fasten  uppn  a  large  portion  of  the  Clergy  and  of 
the  Laity  a  charge  of  holding  false  and  deadly  doctrine- 
doctrine  false  to  the  standards  of  our  Church,  unscriptural, 
and  ruinous  to  the  souls  of  men.     Any  candid  person,  who 
^  should  examine  certain  of  our  Church  newspapers  (so-called) 
from  week  to  week  for  a  few  months,  would  find  himself 
amazed  at  observing  how  very  large  a  proportion  of  every 
number  was  devoted  to  the  work  of  agitation,  to  putting  the 
worst  possible  construction  upon  the  teachings  and  measures 
of  their  brethren  in  the  same  household  of  faith,  to  sowing 
distrust  and  dissension  among  the  Laity,  among  the  great 
body  of  quiet  people  in  the  Church,  who  ought  to  be  made 
to  hear  and  think  of  nothing  but  how  to  serve  God  and  do 
their  duty.     A  reader  not  particularly  discriminating,  and 
not  particularly  well  informed  in  regard  to  the  fundamental 
principles  of  the  Church,  and  looking  habitually  to  one  of 
these  papers  for  most  of  his  knowledge  of  things  passing  in 
the   Church,    could   hardly  fail  to   be  persuaded  that  the 
Church  was  all  but  ruined  and  lost !     He  might  well  come  to 
believe,  as  no  doubt  some  people  do,  that  some  of  the  most 
faithful,   laborious,   self-denying,   and  most    useful  of   the 
Clergy  of  the  Church  are  most  false  to  her  principles,  and 
most  injurious  to  her  good  estate.     To  propagate  these  clam- 
orous aspersions,  to  carry  them  everywhere,  no  pains  and  no 
expense  have  been  spared. 

With  such  a  state  of  things  within  the  Church,  ought  it  to 
be  any  matter  of  wonder  if  the  whole  outside  world  should 
look  upon  us  with  distrust  and  dislike,  and  accepting  the 
testimony  that  comes  from  within  our  own  household,  should 
keep  far  away  from  us,  as  an  infected  and  distracted  flock, 
given  over  to  destruction  !  But  the  contrary  is  the  fact,  and 
that  is  the  real  wonder.  The  Church  grows  !  People  from 
without  come  flocking  to  her  courts  like  doves  to  their  win- 
dows. In  not  a  few  places,  half  of  the  candidates  whom  I 
confirm,  have  come  from  other  religious  bodies  within  a  few 


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years,  and  they  have  come  in  a  large  proportion  of  cases  with 
a  real  love  for  the  Church's  ways,  and  a  full  acceptance  of 
her  principles.     As  I  intimated  in  the  opening  of  my  remarks 
on  this  subject,  new  places  are  calling  for  the  services  of  tlie 
Church  faster  than  we  can  supply  them  !     God  be  praised 
for  His  mercies !     Xow  in  this  experience  there  is  a  great 
lesson  of  encouragement,  encouragement  not  to  answer  rail- 
ing with  railing, — Spirit  of  Grace  forbid  it  I — encouragement- 
not  to  ecclesiastical  pride  and   vanity,  not  to  contempt  of 
others,  wherever  they  may  be,  but  encouragement  to  go  on 
quietly,  peacefully,  earnestly,  lovingly,  with   our  ministra- 
tions, not  dealing  much  in  controversy,  not  assailing  others, 
not  wasting  our  strength  upon  negations,  but  putting  forth 
in  a  positive  way,  and  most  lovingly,  with  a  single  eye  to 
the  salvation  of  souls,  ''  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus,"  making 
the  Church's  worship  alive  with  unaffected  devotion,  visiting 
the   sick   and   the    aflSicted,  conferring   tenderly    with    the 
thoughtful,  speaking  gently  to  the  young,  and  making  it 
everywhere  and  by  all  means  the  supreme  object  of  our 
efforts  to  awaken,  reclaim,  instruct,  animate,  admonish,  con- 
sole all  who  may  be  w^ithin  reach  of  our  pastoral  care,  so 
that,  if  possible,  they  may  be  saved  through  Christ  forever. 
O  !  a  living,  well-ordered  parish,  glowing  with   Christian 
truth  and  Christian  W'ork,  full  of  peace,  going  on  steadily 
from  year  to  year,  untroubled  by  narrow  schemes  or  foolisli 
inventions,  such  a  parish  cannot  but  be  a  light  in  the  vrorld  ; 
it  cannot  but  gain  insensibly  upon  the  esteem  of  surround- 
ing observers  ;  it  cannot  but  appear  to  multitudes  of  weary, 
unsatisfied  souls  in  the  world  without,  as  a  spiritual  paradise, 
as  a  heavenly  resting-place,  as  a  garden  of  the  Lord,  having 
in  it  celestial  beauty  and  celestial  fruit,  and  so  be  continually 
winning  to  itself  admiring  and  loving  adherents. 

It  should  be  our  joy  and  our  encouragement  that  these 
blessed  effects  of  the  ministrations  of  the  Church  result  not 
from  vehement  dogmatism,  not  from  efforts  made  in  a  spirit 
of  propagandism,  but  from  a  ministry  quietly  yet  most  lov- 
ingly devoted  to  tending  and  feeding  the  flock  of  Christ, 


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according  to  the  order  of  His  Church.  And,  if  through  such 
influences  the  Church  will  grow,  as  we  have  seen,  even  in  a 
day  of  trouble  and  rebuke,  even  when  voices  are  loud  within 
her,  which  might  have,  and  to  some  extent  do  have,  the  effect 
of  warning  people  without  against  her,  what  might  we  not 
hope  for  in  the  way  of  growth  and  spiritual  edification,  were 
all  quiet,  peaceful  and  loving  w^ithin,  were  no  differences 
exaggerated,  were  no  views  or  measures  of  brethren,  seen 
through  an  excited  medium,  misconceived  and  misrepre- 
sented, were  none  of  the  strength  of  the  Pulpit  and  the  Press 
expended  in  giving  brethren  an  ill  name,  and  in  creating 
unreal  suspicion  and  alarm. 

But,  my  brethren,  let  us  be  careful  how  we  judge  one  side 
without  judging  the  other.  Let  us  look  on  all  sides.  Let 
us  be  candid,  and  hold  the  scales  evenly,  if  it  may  be  per- 
mitted to  human  infirmity  to  do  so.  We  think  there  has 
been  too  much  denunciation,  too  much  launchinoj  of  accusa- 
tions  of  false  doctrine  and  false  ritual  against  brethren,  too 
much  violent  clamor,  of  a  nature  to  do  injustice  to  the 
views  actually  held  within  the  Church,  calculated  to  lower 
its  morale,  to  disturb  unnecessarily  the  minds  of  her  quiet 
people,  and  to  impair  her  just  influence  in  the  world.  We 
think  so ! 

But,  my  brethren,  has  there  been  no  cause  ?  I  do  not  ask 
whether  there  has  been  a  cause  sufiicient  to  justify  the 
severity  of  the  charges,  the  virulence  of  the  tone,  or  the 
amount  of  time,  space  and  effort  devoted  to  the  propagation 
of  those  charges.  But  have  there  been  no  indiscretions,  in 
speech  and  action,  w^hich  might  very  well  give  occasion  to 
some  complaint  and  to  some  uneasiness  ?  I  fear  we  must 
admit  that  there  have  been  ;  fewer,  no  doubt,  confined  to 
much  narrower  circles,  and,  when  properly  explained  and 
understood,  involving  much  less  resembling  error,  than  was 
popularly  charged,  but  still  some  things  which  every  person 
of  enlightened,  well-balanced  judgment  as  to  what  the  Church 
is,  in  lier  principles,  in  her  history,  in  her  offices,  must  regret 
and  disapprove  of;  hasty  and  extravagant  expressions,  thrown 


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out  almost  as  if  with  the  intention  of  startling  and  giving 
offence;  ill-considered  statements  of  doctrine,  forms  of  cere- 
monial, postures  and  gestures,  which  look  too  much  like  an 
imitation  of  foreign  services,  and  which  come  too  near  to  a 
representation  of  questionable  doctrine.  These  things  are 
few  and  far  between.  A  great  many  things  which  are 
perfectly  harmless,  are  blown  up  by  rumor  into  horrid  mons- 
trosities;  and  I  believe  that,  in  almost  every  instance,  if  the 
individual  doing  or  saying  these  questionable  things  were 
called  upon  in  private  for  a  calm  exposition  of  his  principles, 
he  would  make  statements  with  entire  sincerity,  which  would 
be  found  quite  within  the  limits  of  the  allowed  teachings  of 
our  Church.  l!s^evertheless,  I  repeat,  that  there  have  been 
acts,  and  there  have  been  expressions,  which  are  to  be 
regretted,  and  which  have  done  much  to  give  occasion  for 
tlie  clamor  of  which  we  have  been  speaking.  These  errors 
ought  to  be  guarded  against. 

In  making  these  observations,  I  am  by  no  means  unmind- 
ful of  the  comprehensive  character  of  the  Church.  It  is  a 
fact  to  be  not  only  admitted  but  strongly  aflBrmed,  well  known 
indeed  to  every  intelligent  theologian,  that  between  the  limits 
of  decided  error  on  the  one  side,  and  decided  error  on  the 
other  side,  there  is  a  wide  field  occupied  by  the  Church,  the 
whole  of  it  under  the  protection  of  her  authority,  and  in 
which  there  is  room  for  very  different  phases  of  thouglit  and 
for  considerable  variety  of  ritual — varieties  suited  to  differen 
habits  of  mind,  yet  quite  within  the  limits  of  the  Cliurch's 
law,  properly  interpreted.  Ever  since  the  Reformation — we 
may  almost  say  ever  since  the  days  of  the  Apostles,  these 
two  schools  have  been  in  the  Church,  have  been  tolerated,  a^ 
being  within  the  limits  of  allowable  liberty  of  thought  and 
action.  And,  my  brethren,  within  reasonable  limits,  within 
very  wide  limits,  my  feelings  are  all  in  favor  of  toleration. 
There  are  devoted  men  in  the  Church  whose  notions  of  the 
Church's  teachings  and  of  some  matters  of  Christian  doctrine 
are  very  different  from  mine  ;  but  to  whom  personally  1  am 
warmly  attached,  and  with  whose  labors  I  warmly  sympa- 


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tliize.  I  say,  '^  God  bless  them  and  prosper  them,"  with  all 
my  heart.  Let  those  difierent  schools  teach  and  work  each 
in  their  own  way,  yet  within  the  limits  of  the  Church's  law, 
with  a  single  eye  to  the  glory  of  God,  in  a  spirit  of  charity 
and  unity  toward  their  brethren,  and  we  need  not  be  too 
much  troubled  that. their  thoughts  are  cast  in  somewhat 
different  moulds.  But  the  folly  and  the  mischief  begin 
when  either  of  these  schools  seek  to  narrow  the  Church  down 
to  its  own  measure,  or  to  exterminate  or  drive  the  others  out. 
Such  efforts  are  vain.  They  will  never  succeed  in  the  future 
any  more  than  they  have  succeeded  in  the  past.  And  if  the 
members  of  the  Church  are  wise,  if  they  do  not  wish  to  live 
•  and  die  under  the  influence  of  the  most  narrow  and  unworthy 
conceptions  of  their  own  spiritual  household,  they  will  judge 
of  all  questions  and  all  events  within  the  Church  with  con- 
stant reference  to  this  her  comprehensive  character.  But, 
while  I  thus  speak  in  favor  of  toleration  and  of  charitable  and 
liberal  judgments  of  men  and  things,  I  repeat  again  that 
there  have  been,  here  and  there,  some  expressions  in  teach- 
ing, and  some  forms  in  Divine  services,  that  are  to  be  de- 
precated. Not  all  things,  certainly,  that  any  one  may  choose 
to  complain  of,  are  to  be  censured.  But  expressions  and  acts 
which  are  adventurous,  which  are  extreme, which  tread  closely 
upon  the  borders  of  error,  which  give  occasion  unnecessarily 
to  suspicion  and  alarm,  which  can,  without  much  violence  of 
interpretation,  be  made  to  appear  false  to  the  Church's  teach- 
ing, they  are  worthy  of  censure. 

My  brethren,  in  such  days  as  these,  to  say  nothing  of  other 
things,  something  is  due  to  charity.  And  I  think  they  violate 
the  laws  of  Charity  who  unnecessarily  provoke  suspicion  and 
agitation  in  the  Church.  They  sin  against  Charity  who  by 
their  wilfulness  and  recklessness  cause  their  "  good  to  be  evil 
spoken  of,"  who  so  teach  the  Truth  as  to  make  it  odious — 
unnecessarily  obnoxious  to  the  prejudices  of  the  hearers". 
They  do  something  more  than  offend  against  Charity,  who 
arrogate  to  themselves  the  prerogative  of  arranging  their 
public  services  without  any  regard  to  the  existing  authorities 


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of  their  own  brancli  of  the  Church,  and  without  any  regard 

to  its  recognised  limits  of  allowed  practice. 
If  such  things  are  undutiful  and  mischievous  at  all  times, 
^they  are  most  especially  inconsiderate  and  injurious  in  times 
'*of  nervous  uneasiness  and  jealousy  like  the  present.     They 

disturb  a   vast  number  of  sober-minded  people  within  the 

Cliurch,  who  ought  to  be  allowed  to  seek  spiritual  edifica- 
tion, and  to  say  their  prayers  in  quiet.  They  make  it  more 
difficult  to  teach  the  real  Truth— the  old  Truth  of  the  Church 
—than  it  need  be.  They  strengthen  the  hands  of  those  who 
do  not  believe  the  Church's  Formularies,  who  seek  to  fasten 
upon  them  a  non-natural  sense,  and  some  of  whom  at  length 
openly  express  a  wish  to  change  them. 

We  sometimes  meet  a  teacher  in  the  world  who  seems  to 
take  a  real  pleasure  in  saying  startling  things.     There  is  in 
his  temper  aMittle  perverseness  and  a  little  conceit  of  bravery 
which  makes  him  love  to  go  beyond  the  common,  to  use 
strange  and  bold  expressions  in  his  statements,  to  despise 
those   limitations,   those   qualifications,   those  explanations 
which  would  make  the  real  truth  appear  clear,  and  not  only 
inoifensive  but  engaging  and  edifying.     Such  a  temper  is 
very   apt  to  make  itself  manifest  also  in  some  way,  more 
or  less  significant,  in   the  ordering  of  the  Services.     Very 
different  from  this  is  the  spirit  of  the  loving  and  considerate 
Pastor,     lie  shrinks  from  no  proper  vindication  or  defence 
of  important  truth.     He  passes  over  no  point  of  useful  in- 
struction.    But  he  is  so  occupied  with  the  thought  of  winning 
souls  to  Christ  and  of  building  them  up  in  His  most  holy 
Faith,  he  is  so  full  of  the  gentleness,  tenderness,  and  sympa- 
thy of  his  divine  Master,  that  he  is  incapable  of  doing  any 
thing  needlessly  to  offend  or  turn  aside  even  so  much  as  one 
irom  the  view  of  that   Master's  love,  or  from  the  power  of 
His  grace.     Different  gifts  belong  to  different  persons;  and 
no  doubt  much  must  be  conceded  to  diversities  of  tempera- 
ment and  mental  constitution. 

But  it  does  seem  to  me,  after  much  reflection,  that  in  these 
days  of  suspicion  and  feverish  excitement,  it  is  the  duty  of  a 
Chief  Pastor  in  the  Church  of  God  to  put  his  brethren  of 


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the  Clergy  m  mind  of  what  great  and  especial  need  there  is 
at  the  present  time  for  caution,  moderation,  and  charity.     I 
believe  you  to  be  faithful  to  the  Truth,  and  most  affection- 
ately  devoted  to  the  tending  and  feeding  of  your  flocks. 
But  there  is  a  call  for  more  than  ordinary  circumspection. 
If  there  have  been  some  things  calculated  to  provoke  sus- 
picion  and  jealousy  in  the  Church,  and  if  there  are  those  who 
think  it  their  duty  to  make  the  most  of  every  thing  that  can 
be  impeached,  surely  it  should  be  a  warning  to  every  one  of 
us  to  be  circumspect  in  thought,  word,  and  deed,  "giving  no 
offence  in  any  thing,  that  the  ministry  be  not  blamed."    And 
there  is  another  warning  which  every  Christian  Pastor,  what- 
ever  be  his  rank  or  position,  may  very  well  Jay  to  heart :  to 
take  care  that  he  do  not  become  too  onesided  in  his  views, 
that  he  be  not  carried  along  by  an  insensible  current  until 
he  becomes,  in  his  reading  and  thinking,  and  in  his  feelings, 
first  narrow  and  partial— wholly  occupied  with  views  looking 
one  way— I  say  first  narrow  and  partial,  and  then  extreme 
and  intolerant !     It  was  by  such  a  mental  drift  that  Mr. 
Newman  was  carried  out  of  the  Church  on  one  side,  and  such 
men  as  Mr.  Baptist  Noel  on  the  other !    It  is  easy  for  an 
ardent  mind  to  become  onesided,  exclusively  devoted  to  read- 
ing and  thinking  and  active  effort  in  one  direction,  until  the 
one  view,  which  at  the  first,  held  in  moderation,  had  some 
truth  in  it,  becomes  a  passion,  takes  possession  of  the  whole 
man,  makes  him  insensible  to  truth  from  the  opposite  pole, 
and  hurries  him  into  grievous  error.     What  a  peril  for  one 
admitted  to  a  holy  office,  and  Divinely  appointed  to  be  a 
teacher  and  a  guide  to  others  ! 

As  something  has  been  said  against  certain  eccentric  chancres 
in  the  manner  of  celebrating  the  Services  of  the  Church,  p'^er- 
haps  the  question  will  be  asked,  ''  Are,  then,  all  changes  of 
every  kind  in  the  mode  of  conducting  the  worship  of  the 
Church,  in  whatever  place,  and  under  whatever  circum- 
stances, to  be  considered  inadmissible  ?  Is  there  no  liberty 
for  improvement,  where  improvement  is  much  needed  ?  In 
parishes  where,  for  a  long  series  of  years,  the  Services  have 

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been  conducted  in  a  sordid  and  slovenly  manner,  -without 
proper  appointments,  in  a  mode  which  is  really  out  of  har- 
mony with  the  better  general  practice  of  the  Church,  are 
such  Services  to  be  fastened  upon  the  Church  forever,  merely 
because,  in  a  day  of  imperfect  things,  they  chanced  to  be  so 
begun  ?     As  our  church  edifices  are  improved,  and  as  we  are 
gradually  emancipated  from  the  narrow  circumstances  and 
the  somewhat  narrow  views  under  which  our  Church  in  this 
country  commenced  its  independent  existence,  are  all  our  ser- 
vices to  be  still  tied  down  to  the  absolute  form  and  measure 
of  our  first  and  crudest  years  ?     If  our  Prayer  Eook  affords 
opportunity,  Avhere  circumstances  are  favorable,  for  a  more 
beautiful,  more  animated,  more  exalted  and  inspiring  wor- 
ship,— a  worship  more  becoming  as  the  offering  of  a  great 
congregation ;  and  if  such  nobler  worship  is  abundantly  ex- 
emplified and  sanctioned  in  the  long  recognised  use  of  the 
Mother  Church,  are  we  to  be  denied  the  privilege  of  making 
improvements  in  the  Services  in  some  degree  corresponding 
to  the  improvements  that  have  taken  place  in  our  church 
edifices  ? — it  being  always  understood  that  the  form  of  our 
Services,  as  well  as  the  structure  of  our  churches,  shall  be 
kept  in  harmony  wdth  our  Prayer  Book,  and  of  course  with 
the  principles  and  spirit  of  our.  Churcli,  intelligently  inter- 
preted.    We  freely  admit,  (we  may  suppose  the  questioner  to 
say,)  we  freely  admit  that  our  Church,  as  compared  with  me- 
dieval forms,  inclines  to  simplicity.     The  highest  cathedral 
service  in  England  is  in  fact  very  simple,  compared  with 
medieval  services,  or  as  compared  w^itli  the  Eastern  or  Pom  an 
services  of  the  present  day.     We  heartily  approve  of  our  own 
greater  simplicity,  but  still  we  desire  to  know  whether,  with 
such  a  Prayer  Book  in  our  hands,  and  with  such  examples  of 
it^  possible  and  allowable  use  before  us,  the  door  is  to  be  ab- 
solutely and  forever  closed  against  every  kind  of  change  and 
improvement?  ,         .  . 

•The  answer  to  these  questions  will  rise  up  before  almost 
every  mind  so  soon  as  they  are  stated.  We  cannot  exclude 
all,  improvements  within  the  limits  of  Law,  if  we  would ; 


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and  certainly  we  ought  not,  if  we  could.  An  attempt  to 
keep  all  our  churches  and  all  our  services  forever  conformed 
to  the  standard  of  what  were  the  average  forms  sixty  years 
ago  would  have  been  a  monstrous  absurdity,  and  it  would 
have  been  just  as  impossible  as  to  prevent  the  risino-  of  the 
ocean  tides.  Could  an  exact  image  of  the  average'services 
ot  the  Church  as  they  were  celebrated  sixty  years  a-o  be 
made  palpable  to  our  view,  there  is  not  one  Churchmln  or 
Church  woman  in  a  hmidred  in  this  Diocese  who  would  desire 
to  recall  them. 

We  revere  the  Bishops  and  Clergy  of  those  days.  They 
did  all  that  the  circumstances  of  the  Church  and  countrV 
permitted  or  required.  But  the  Church  of  England  in  that 
and  the  preceding  age  was  not  seeing  her  best  days  •  and 
when  we  consider  under  what  disabilities  our  Churcl'i  in  this 
country  labored  previous  to  and  during  the  Eevolution  and 
indeed  lor  many  years  after  it,  and  that  she  took  her  fi-st 
impress  from  the  Mother  Church,  when  that  Church  was  by 
no  means  the  glowing,  working  Church  that  she  has  been 
since,  we  can  easily  see  that  to  take  our  Church  as  she  was 
in  her  first  feeble  and  crude  days  in  this  country,  and  make 
It  an  absolute  pattern,  even  in  subordinate  things    for  all 

and  Stir'  '"''^"^  ^''''  ^''''  '^'  '"  '^^^"^'  ^"'^  Bhoi^sighted 
And  Ave  can  easily  see,  too,  if  our  General  Convention  in 
hose  early  days  had  undertaken  to  engage  in  minute  restrictive 
legislation  in  regard  to  Eitual,  absolutely  tying  down  all  our 
services  to  precisely  the  form  and  manner  which  alone  entered 
into  their  conceptions  ;  I  say,  if  they  had  attempted  to  do  that 
we  can  easily  see  what  a  piece  of  work  they  would  have  made 
ot  it !  ^  Let,  then,  the  wisdom  of  the  past,  whether  deliberate 
or  accidental,  be  a  lesson  for  the  future !     At  the  present 
day  It  seems  to  me  that  the  General  Convention  could  scarcely 
engage  in  a  more  perilous  and  mischievous  undertakino-  than 
would  be  that  of  seeking  by  legislation  to  abridge  the  just 
liberty  of  the  Clergy.     It  is  not  required  for  the  lecritimate 
government  of  the  Church,  and  it  cannot  be  carried  to  any 


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Buch  extent  as  would  give  any  thing  like  respectability  to  the 
attempt  without  the  grayest  inconveniences  and  dangers. 

I  say  restrictive  legislation  in  regard  to  Eitnal  is  not  re- 
quired in  the  Church  in  this  country,  and  for  two  reasons : 

First— Excessive  ritualism  (so-called)  as  it  is  seen  in  some 
places  in  England  has  not  transferred  itself  to  this  country 
to  any  extent  worthy  of  notice.    It  has  never  from  the  first 
had  vitality  enough  on  this  side  of  the  ocean  to  propagate 
itself.    It  is  ten  years  or  more  since  the  first  alarm  was 
raised,  since  certain  features  appeared  for  the  first  time  in 
one  or  two  small  churches  in  this  Diocese.    These  ten  years 
have  passed  away,  and  still  every  thing  that  can  possibly  be 
charged,  as  real  excess,  is  confined  to  two  or  three  small 
churches.    For  to  speak  of  such  services  as  those  of  Trinity 
Church  as  worthy  of  grave  censure,— to  treat  choral  services, 
and  surpliced  choirs,  and  processional  psalms  and  hymns  as 
things  perilous  to  the  Church,— is  a  puerility  hardly  entitled 
to  serious  consideration.    We  can  hardly  presume  to  cut  our- 
selves  off  from  all  reference  to  the  authority  and  example  of 
the  Mother  Church  from  which  we  are  descended  ;  and  in 
the  Church  of  England  most  people  know  that  choral  services 
and  surpliced  choirs  and  processions  have  been   familiar 
things  ever  since  the  Keformation.    Particular  individuals 
being  unused  to  these  things,  may  not  find  them  helps  to  de- 
votion, and  may  prefer  to  attend  a  worship  which  is  differ- 
ently  ordered.    This  they  are  perfectly  at  liberty  to  do  ;  but 
for  them  to  attempt  to  deprive  others  of  the  services  which 
they  do  not  choose  for  themselves,  for  them  to  denounce 
those  services  as  unlawful  and  wicked,  and  perilous  to  the 
souls  of  men,  and  to  seek  to  h^ve  them  put  under  a  ban 
throughout  the  whole  Church,  is  scarcely  consistent  with 
Christian  moderation  and  charity— scarcely  consistent  with 
the  comprehensive  character  of  the  great  Communion  to 
which  they  belong.    I  say,  then,  that  real  excesses  in  Kitual 
have  appeared  in  this  country  only  to  an  extent  which  is  in- 
significant, that  they  evince  no  power  to  propagate  them- 
selves, and  therefore  call  for  no  restrictive  legislation  ;— for, 


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In  the  second  place,  such  as  they  are,  they  may  be  safely 
left  to  the  authorities  of  the  Diocese  in  which  they  occur. 
And,  if  those  authorities  are  wise,  they  will  act  in  all  such 
matters  with  great  reserve  and  moderation,  whatever  tlieir 
own  individual  views  may  happen  to  be.  The  real  limits  to 
which  services  may  be  carried  without  violation  of  what  may 
be  called  law  and  usage  in  the  Church,  and  without  symbol- 
izing false  doctrine,  are  somewhat  vague.  It  is  some  eight 
or  ten  years  since  I  remarked  in  a  conventional  Address, 
that  if  in  the  discharge  of  my  duty  I  visited  a  Church  where 
the  services  were  somewhat  peculiar,  and  if  I  did  so  without 
special  remark  upon  the  services,  it  was  not  to  be  inferred 
that  they  were  altogether  to  my  taste,  or  that  I  entirely  ap- 
proved of  them  ;  that  if  those  services  by  a  liberal  construc- 
tion could  be  brought  within  the  limits  of  the  law  and  usa^e 
of  the  Church,  it  did  not  seem  to  me  to  become  a  Bishop  to 
attempt  to  rule  them  by  the  measure  of  his  own  individual 
idiosyncrasies.  I  think  so  still.  And  I  think,  moreover, 
that  a  Bishop  had  better  in  many  such  things  be  slow  to  act. 
Many  evils  are  of  a  nature  to  cure  themselves,  and  a  micro- 
scopic vision  and  hasty  and  imperious  action  are  by  no  means 
the  best  securities  for  ecclesiastical  order. 

Enough  has  been  said  in  the  preceding  part  of  this  Address 
to  show  that  the  Bishop  of  this  Diocese  is  very  far  from  being 
friendly  to  excessive  Kitual,  as,  on  the  other  hand,  he  is 
equally  far  removed  from  partiality  to  a  narrow  and  restric- 
tive system  in  regard  to  the  worship  of  the  Church.  That 
within  the  last  twenty  years  there  has  been  upon  the  whole  a 
great  change  for  the  better  in  the  form  and  style  of  our  holy 
places,  in  the  treatment  of  them,  and  in  the  more  careful  or- 
dering of  the  services,  especially  in  many  of  the  smaller 
parishes,  few  candid  and  well-informed  persons  will  be  in- 
clined to  deny.  And  if  these  changes  have  tended  to  increase 
of  visible  reverence  for  everything  pertaining  to  the  public 
worship  of  Almighty  God,  if  in  many  respects  they  have  been 
of  a  nature  to  interest  and  engage  the  young,  and  if  these 
changes,  (changes  not  in  substance,  but  in  a  few  particulars 
of  manner, — of  outward  expression,)  if  these  changes  have  in 


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BO  Tray  interfered  with  the  preaching  of  the  "  Truth  as  it  is 
in  Jesus,"  or  witli  Cliurch  work,  it  seems  to  me  that  they 
need  not  greatly  alarm  us. 

Tin's  is  not  the  place  in  which  to  attempt  a  full  discussion 
of  tlie  nature  and  influence  of  outward  and  visible  things, 
sucli  as  form  and  ceremonial  in  religion.     The  question  which 
we  in  tliis  branch  of  the  Church  have  to  consider  in  regard 
to  the  form  and  manner  of  conducting  Divine  services  is,  of 
course,  not  an  abstract  and  original  question  as  to  what  kind 
of  Eitual  would  be  most  conducive  to  devotion  and  to  the 
maintainance  of  Divine  Truth  in  its  purity,  had  we  every- 
thing to  create  anew;  the  question  is,  wliat  is  consistent witli 
our  Prayer   Book?     What  is  consistent  with  the  law  and 
usage  of  this  branch  of  the  Chnrch  or  of  the  Anglican  Com- 
munion as  a  whole  ?     And  within  the  limits  of  allowed  usage, 
what  are  the  comparative  merits  of  the  simpler  and  tlie  more 
ornate,  or  more  expressive  services  ?     On  the  general  ques- 
tion, I  detain  you  with  only  one  observation.     There  is  a 
vague  notion  prevalent  in  a  large  portion  of  the  popular  re- 
ligious world,  which  constitutes  the  main  staple  of  certain 
arguments  and  denunciations  in  regard  to  ceremonial,  some 
times  launched  against  the  Church  from  without,  and  still 
more  frequently  used  within  by  one  portion  of  the  Church 
against  the  other.     It  is  a  notion  of  such  general  prevalence 
and  use  that  it  has  passed  into  a  kind  of  stereotyped  formula, 
forever  repeated  in  the  Pulpit,  forever  re-echoed  from  the 
Press ;  it  is  to  this  eftect :  that  there  is  a  necessary  and  irre- 
concilable antagonism  between  the  outward  and  visible  and 
the  inward  and  spiritual ;  that  in  proportion  as  we  are  influ 
enced  by  the  former,  Ave  are  withdrawn  from-  the  influence 
of  the  latter;  that  they  who  make  much  of  the  outward  and 
visible,  make  little  of  the  inward  and  spiritual.     Of  course 
this  naked  and  unqualified  statement  would  be  denied  by  the 
class  of  persons  now  referred  to.     They  would  say,  '^We 
also  believe  in  some  use  of  the  outward  and  visible,  as  may 
be  seen  in  our  practice.     What  we  object  to  is  an  excessive 
use  of  the  outward,  which  we  hold  to  be  unfavorable  to  the 
attention  and  susceptibility  of  the  soul  to  the  spiritual."     Of 


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course,  "  excessive  use,"  in  the  meaning  of  each  such  indi- 
vidual, would  be  that  which  exceeds  what  may  chance  to 
have  been  the  custom  with  him,  the  custom  in  his  sphere  of 
action  and  observation.  But  it  cannot  be  doubted  that  in 
the  unguarded  popular  way  in  which  such  views  are  usually 
stated,  things  outward  and  visible  are  placed  in  direct  an- 
tagonism to  things  inward  and  spiritual,  and  the  idea  is 
strongly  inculcated  that  interest  in  the  outward  deadens  the 
interest  of  the  soul  in  the  spiritual. 

•  No  doubt  there  are  religious  services  in  other  portions  of 
the  Christian  world,  which  appear  to  our  unaccustomed  eyes 
to  be  altogether  overburdened  with  elaborate  ceremonial. 
But  what  a  gross  fallacy  is  involved  in  the  popular  notion 
that  outward  expression  stands  in  the  way  of  inward  feeling  ! 
What  are  the  senses  made  for,  but  that  outward  things  may 
have  an  avenue  through  which  they  may  act  upon  and  stir 
up  the  affections  of  the  soul  ?  When  the  Psalmist  rejoiced 
that  "the  heavens  declare  the  glory  of  God,"  that  "the 
firmament  showeth  forth  His  handiwork,"  he  seemed  to 
think  that  the  magnificence  of  the  visible  creation  could  not 
but  move  the  intelligent  beholder  to  adoration  and  praise  ; 
he  more  than  anticipated  the  later  saying,  that  "  theundevout 
astronomer  is  mad."  Let  me  not  abuse  your  patience  by 
taking  up  time  to  prove  what  every  one  knows:  that,  more 
than  in  almost  any  other  way,  the  soul  is  reached  and  excited 
by  impressions  derived  from  external  things  :  the  visible  helps 
us  to  realize  the  invisible.  I  never  heard  that  impressive 
funeral  ceremonies  were  supposed  to  detract  from  the  reve- 
rence felt  for  the  departed.  When  political  parties,  on  the 
eve  of  an  election,  light  their  fires,  and  parade  with  banners 
their  immense  torchlight  processions,  they  seem  not  to  have 
learned,  from  their  many  j-ears'  experience,  that  these  out- 
ward displays  are  of  a  nature  to  lessen  the  inward  enthusiasm 
and  devotion  of  their  followers.  When  the  commander  of  a 
great  army,  as  the  hour  of  battle  approaches,  collects  around 
him  his  splendid  retinue  of  glittering  sabres  and  nodding 
plumes,  and  passes  along  the  front  of  his  line, — banners  low- 
ered, trumpets  sounding,  until  the  blood  of  every  soldier 


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boils  in  his  veins  with  martial  excitement, — it  surely  implies 
no  apprehension  on  his  part  that  this  preparatory  ceremonial 
will  take  off  their  thoughts  from  the  mighty  struggle  be- 
fore them,  or  detract  from  their  heroic  determination.  1 
have  heard  rugged  men  speak  of  the  effect  produced  upon 
them  as  the  procession  of  Clergy  and  Laity  moved  up  the 
aisle  at  the  consecration  of  a  church,  repeating  the  sublime 
anthem  :  they  said  they  could  not  repress  their  tears.  As 
majesty  and  beauty  in  the  House  of  the  Lord  impress  the 
mind  with  awe,  and  predispose  it  to  devotion,  so  a  certain 
degree  of  order,  dignity,  beauty  in  the  worship,  whether 
addressed  to  the  eye,  or  to  the  ear,  if  bearing  the  impress  of 
reverence,  helps  to  touch  and  elevate  the  soul,  unless jirideed, 
there  be  invincible  p^'ejudices  standing  in  the  way  ! 

Novelties  introduced  into  the  customary  order  of  Divine 
services,  whether  in  the  way  of  addition  or  of  omission  in 
the  outward  ceremonial,  will,  no  doubt,  at  first  jostle  the 
mind  of  the  worshipper  and  disturb  in  some  measure  his  de- 
votion, more  or  less,  according  as  he  is  more  or  less  a  creature 
of  prejudice  and  easily  offended.  But  it  is  a  mistake  to  sup- 
pose that  in  places  where  the  services  are  always  of  the  same 
general  character,  no  matter  how  striking  in  outward  cere- 
monial, the  ordinary  attendant  is  much  occupied  with  con- 
scious attention  to  outward  details.  Accompany  a  devout 
person  who  is  accustomed  to  worship  in  one  of  the  most  mag- 
nificent cathedrals  of  England,  you  will  see  him  as  much  ab- 
stracted as  if  he  w^ere  sitting  in  a  Quaker  meeting.  The 
impressive  things  about  him  are  too  familiar  to  be  able  to 
fasten  his  attention  absolutely  upon  themselves.  Uncon- 
sciously he  is  warmed  and  animated,  and  lifted  up  by  their 
influence,  but  without  their  becoming  distinct  and  separate 
objects  of  thought  in  any  such  way  as  to  take  off  his  mind 
from  his  devotions.  Quite  the  contrary.  In  such  a  cathedral 
I  have  seen  the  humblest  and  plainest  of  the  poor  absorbed 
in  their  Prayer  Books  and  their  devotions,  apparently  with- 
out the  slightest  thought  or  recollection  that  there  was  any 
thing  remarkable  around  them. 

And  these  observations  bring  into  view  one  great  reason 


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why,  in  the  same  place,  the  services  should  be,  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, uniform.  If  they  be  of  a  uniform  character,  the  wor- 
shippers will  become  accustomed  to  them  whatever  they  may 
be,  and  cease  to  give  any  conscious  attention  to  the  details. 
But,  as  we  have  seen,  our  Church  is  a  comprehensive  Church, 
and  our  services,  within  reasonable  limits,  may  be  expected 
to  exhibit,  in  different  times  and  places  considerable  vari- 
eties, reaching  from  the  simplest  worship  of  the  village 
Church  up  to  the  highest  and  most  animated  service  known 
to  the  cathedrals  of  England.  And,  I  confess,  it  seems  to  me 
that  that  member  of  the  Church  is  in  an  unhappy  state  of 
mind,  who  cannot  meet  a  service  of  any  tone,  included  with- 
in the  reasonable  limits  referred  to,  without  being  offended 
at  it,  or  without  denouncing  it  in  the  public  papers  as  un- 
faithful to  the  Church  and  to  the  Truth.  Such  a  person  may 
find  a  service  which  he  encounters,  agreeing  more  or  less 
with  his  individual  preferences,  but  that  any  lawful  service 
should  have  the  power  of  disturbing  his  devotions  or  his 
equanimity,  implies  that  the  mischief  is  more  in  the  mind  of 
the  individual  than  in  the  form  of  the  worship.  Surely  a 
little  more  breadth  of  mind,  a  little  more  largeness  of  view, 
a  little  more  habitual  recognition  of  the  fact  that  a  slightly 
different  mode  of  celebrating  our  one  Service  may  be  just 
as  edifying  to  another  person  as  the  particular  mode  we  prefer 
is  to  us,  would  be  good  for  any  member  of  our  Communion. 
It  would  make  him  more  happy,  more  charitable,  and  less  apt 
to  assist  in  disturbing  the  Church  with  groundless  alarms. 

My  brethren,  you  will  not  mistake  my  object  in  detaining 
you  with  these  observations  on  the  use  of  external  things  in 
Eeligion.  Nothing  could  be  further  from  my  purpose  than 
any  wish  to  encourage  or  to  vindicate  unnecessary  changes 
in  the  mode  of  conducting  the  Services  of  the  Church,  or  to 
encourage  or  vindicate  any  thing  like  excessive  ceremonial. 
Very  far  from  it.  The  contrary  plainly  appears  in  many 
parts  of  this  address.  For  myself  personally,  I  can  worship 
without  disturbance  amid  all  the  allowed  varieties  in  our 
Church,  though  I  confess  my  own  tastes  and  habits  rather 


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incline  to  the  simple  than  to  the  more  florid.  It  seems  to 
me  that  the  duty  of  the  Clergy,  in  times  like  the  present,  is 
most  manifest  and  most  imperative.  Do  not  sacrifice  the 
peace  and  edification  of  your  flocks  for  any  subordinate  ob- 
ject. Do  not  convulse  a  parish  for  the  sake  of  an  inconsider- 
able improvement,  which,  after  all,  is  not  vital  in  the  worship 
of  your  Church.  Trust  to  time  and  gentle  influences  and  a 
slowly  dawning  reason  to  enable  you  to  do  every  thing  need- 
ful for  reverence  and  true  devotion,  without  offence  to  the 
feeblest  of  the  little  ones  of  your  spiritual  charge.  Beware 
of  passionate  devotion  to  any  thing  which  is  not  vital  to  the 
souls  of  your  people,  and  above  all,  beware  of  the  approaches 
of  insidious  error,  in  whatever  garb  it  may  clothe  itself. 

So  much  for  the  duty  of  the  Clergy.  I  believe  they  are 
not  insensible  to  it.  But,  my  brethren  of  the  Laity,  what  is 
the  lesson  for  you  ?  Is  there  no  call  to  you  in  the  considera- 
tions just  presented,  to  look  to  your  ways  and  your  duty  in 
the  Church  of  God?  If  this  Church  be  a  comprehensive 
Church,  as  plainly  appears  in  her  history  and  in  her  formu- 
laries ;  if  her  Prayer  Book  provides  ample  room  for  very  con- 
siderable variety  in  the  style  of  her  public  worship ;  if  all 
these  different  varieties  of  style,  (and  really,  when  analyzed, 
they  amount  to  very  little,)  if  they  have  all  been  recognised 
and  sanctioned  in  different  parts  of  tiie  Church,  and  have  all 
in  their  turn  been  used  and  loved  by  the  holiest  men  the 
world  has  seen  ;  if  a  considerable  use  of  outward  ceremonial 
in  public  worship  be  not  necessarily  inimical  to  spiritual  re- 
ligion, but  often  a  great  and  necessary  help  to  devotion ; 
then  is  it  quite  becoming  in  this  individual  or  that  individual, 
among  the  Laity,  to  seek  to  cast  suspicion  upon  his  brethren 
and  to  create  disturbance  in  the  Church,  because  the  wor- 
ship of  the  Church  in  his  parish  or  in  his  neighborhood, 
has  put  on  some  features  which  happen  to  be  new  and 
strange  to  him,  though  by  no  means  new  or  strange  in 
other  parts  of  the  Church?  Would  it  not  be  better  to 
recognise  the  fact,  that  these  things  are  indifi*erent~mat- 
ters  of  taste  or  matters  of  opinion,  like  some  matters  of 
opinion  in  doctrine — and  all  to  be  included  among  things 


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allowed  and  tolerated  in  the  Church  ?  "Would  it  not  be  better 
to  dismiss  violent  prejudices  and  violent  resentments  against 
things  which  for  ages  have  been  made  a  part  of  the  recog- 
nised system  of  the  Church  ?  If  we  could  all  cultivate  a 
spirit  more  in  harmony  with  the  breadth  and  comprehensive- 
ness of  our  great  Communion,  would  it  not  be  better  for  the 
peace  and  dignity  of  the  Church  as  a  whole,  better  for  the 
spiritual  health  and  comfort  and  growth  in  grace  of  each 
individual  member  ? 

We  are  on  the  very  eve  of  another  Triennal  meeting  of 
the  General  Convention  of  our  Church.     At  all  times  the 
assembling  of  such  a  Council  is  an  occasion  of  great  interest 
and  importance.     The  approaching  session  will  be  one  of 
perhaps  more  than  ordinary  interest.     For  the  first  time  since 
1859  all  the  Dioceses  will  probably  be  represented,     'ihree 
years  ago  the  material  obstacles  previously  existing  in  the 
country  had  been  so  recently  removed,  that  time  and  oppor- 
tunity allowed  only  a  few  of  our  Southern  brethren  to  resume 
their  places  among  us.     We  are  now  indulging  the  grateful 
anticipation  that  next  Wednesday,  if  we  shall  be  permitted 
to  see  it,  we  shall  witness  a  happy  reunion  of  Chief  Pastors 
and  of  Clerical  and  Lay  Deputies  from  all  the  widely  extended 
portions  of  our  vast  country.     I  believe  I  only  give  voice  to 
the  universal  feelins:  anions:  the  devout  members  of  our  Com- 
munion,  North  and  South,  East  and  West,  when  I  give  expres- 
sion to  the  earnest  prayer — the  confident  hope,  that  in  that 
great  assembly,  whatever  other  diflferences  may  appear,  (and 
some  minor  differences  of  opinion  may  always  be  expected 
in  such  a  body,)  there  will  be,  as  between  the  representatives 
of  remote  Dioceses,  nothing  but  the  most  fraternal  spirit ; 
only  a  generous  and  loving  rivalry  on  all  sides,  who  shall  do 
most  to  promote  unity  of  feeling  and  harmonious  co-opera- 
tion, no  hasty  unpremeditated  word  being  allowed  to  escape 
to  give  pain,  where  there  was  no  thought  of  giving  pain  ;  no 
word  to  mar  the  genial,  healing  influences  of  the  fraternal 
intercommunion,  or  to  lower  in  the  eyes  of  the  Church  and 
of  the  country  the  moral  dignity  of  the  scene ! 


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Upon  the  assembling  of  such  a  body  as  the  General  Con- 
vention of  our  Church,  which  convenes  only  once  in  three 
years,  it  would  be  strange  if  its  doors  were  not  besieged 
by  a  number  of  ingenious  proposals  and  plausible  inventions. 
We  have  had  some  experience  in  that  way  in  the  past,  and 
we  are  not  likely  to  lack  a  continuance  of  it  in  the  future. 
There  is  a  fair  prospect  that  the  approaching  Convention 
will  have  its  full  share  of  general  questions  presented  for 
debate.  Happily  the  great  body  of  the  Church  is  conserva- 
tive in  its  spirit  and  habits ;  steadfast  in  its  adherence  to 
certain  great  fundamental  principles ;  very  little  apt  to  be 
carried  away  with  enthusiasm  for  new  schemes;  and  the 
usual  experience  of  our  General  Conventions  is,  that  a  great 
many  things  are  discussed,  while  comparatively  few  things 
are  approved  and  adopted.  This  is  altogether  satisfactory, 
and  I  certainly  trust  that  in  these  respects  the  coming  Con- 
vention will  follow  the  precedents. 

We  hear  that  it  is  proposed  to  ask  for  a  revision  of  the 
Creed.     It  is  to  be  presumed,  too,  that  there  will  be  some 
questions  touching  our  relations  with  certain  foreign  Churches. 
And  there  will  probably  be  a  petition  for  a  measure  of  general 
legislation,  calculated  to  effect  a  fundamental  change  in  the 
very  reasonable  and  long  established  order  and  discipline  of 
this  Church.     In  regard  to  this  last  proposition,  I  may  of 
course  be  mistaken,  but  I  think  it  right  to  say,  in  this  public 
manner,  that  I  have  not  the  remotest  idea  that  the  Church 
will  allow  herself  to  be  moved  one  hair's  breadth  from  the 
old  foundations,  on  which,  in  accordance  with  her  principles 
and  all  her  antecedents,  she  was  established  by  our  Fathers. 
As  respects  such  undertakings  as  a  critical  revision  of  the 
Creed,  no  matter  in  how  slight  particulars,  and  busying  our- 
selves with  the  matter  of  our  relations  with  foreign  Churches, 
I  confess,— and  I  say  it  with  every  feeling  of  respect  for  the 
opinion  of  others,— I  think  the  less  we  have  to  do  with  such 
things  at  present,  in  our  collective  capacity  as  a  legislative 
body,   the  better  it   will  be  for  us.     Every  right-minded 
Christian  will  deplore  the  existing  divisions  in  the  Body  of 


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Christ,  and  will  long  and  pray  for  the  coming  on  of  a  day  of 
better  mutual  understanding  among  all  the  scattered  and 
dissevered  branches  of  the  One  Holy  Catholic  Church, — 
among  all  the  dispersed  followers  of  the  One  Lord  and 
Saviour.  O  it  would  be  a  blessed  day  which  should  see  in 
each  separate  part  of  Christendom  less  self  complacency  in 
itself,  and  less  misinterpretation  and  scorn  of  others, — less  of 
the  spirit  of  the  Pharisee,  crying  "  God,  I  thank  Thee  that  / 
am  not  as  other  men  are" — and  more  of  the  spirit  of  the 
Publican,  saying  "  God  be  merciful  to  me  a  sinner !"  It 
would  be  good  for  the  intelligence  and  for  the  wisdom,  as 
well  as  for  the  charity  of  the  whole  Christian  world,  if  each 
separate  portion  could  be  endowed  with  a  power  of  spiritual 
discernment  and  sympathy  enabling  it  to  recognise  and  love 
real  faith  and  real  goodness  in  others,  though  appearing 
under  forms  and  habitudes  totally  different  from  its  own. 
But  such  a  divine  gift  and  faculty,  how  very  far  it  seems  yet 
to  be  removed  from  us  !  Few  signs  can  be  recognised  in 
the  heavens  or  in  the  earth  that  it  is  beginning  to  descend 
upon  us !  A  few  faint  tokens  there  are  indeed,  here  and 
there,  that  some  widely  separated  Christian  hearts  feebly 
palpitate,  ever  and  anon  in  the  gloom,  with  better  thoughts 
and  better  hopes.  But  each  separate  portion  has  yet  a  great 
deal  to  learn,  a  great  deal  to  change, — none  more  than  our- 
selves,— before  we  can  begin  to  make  tlie  least  real  approach 
to  mutual  good  understanding  and  sympathy.  If  we  our- 
selves cannot  understand  each  other  in  the  same  Household 
of  Faith,  how  can  we  understand  or  sympathize  with  strangers 
of  another  Household,  who  are  dimly  seen  very  far  off,  veiled 
to  us  under  strange  forms  and  costumes?  No  spasmodic 
action,  no  exceptional  movement,  will  do  much  toward 
drawing  together  the  dissevered  parts  of  Christendom,  or 
toward  recreating  among  them  a  spirit  of  unity  and  feelings 
of  sympathy.  And  sometimes  premature  advances  on  the 
part  of  bodies  of  inferior  age,  magnitude  and  standing,  have 
the  effect  of  exciting  distrust,  and  so  of  retarding  rather  than 
advancing  their  object. 


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We  onglit  never  to  forget  that  great  movements  tending 
to  improvement,  whether  in  ecclesiastical  or  social  systems, 
come  less  frequently  from  the  foresight  and  contrivance  of 
man,  than  from  unexpected  openings  of  divine  Providence. 
If  we  do  onr  duty, — the  duty  that  is  nearest  to  us,  and  most 
incumoent  upon  us  in  that  state  of  life  to  which  it  hath 
pleased  God  to  call  us,— with  hatred  toward  none,  with 
charity  toward  all,  daily  praying  from  the  lieart  the  prayer 
of  our  Lord,  "Onr  Father!  Hallowed  beTliyName!  Thy 
kingdom  come !  Tliy  will  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  done  in 
Heaven  !" — we  shall  be  best  doing  our  part  toward  sup- 
plying the  conditions  on  which  alone  the  Adorable  Head  of 
the  Church,  whose  work  it  is,  will  ever  make  the  alienated 
portions  of  His  flock  of  one  mind  and  one  heart. 

It  is  to  be  feared  that  we  do  not  always  remember  what 
our  position  is  as  a  branch  of  the  Church  in  the  vast  domain 
of  Christendom  ;  nor  even  in  the  great  Anglican  Communion, 
of  which,  as  represented  last  year  at  Lambeth,  we  form  a 
part.  As  an  independent  nation,  and  as  a  separate  ecclesi- 
astical organization,  we  have  only  attained  to  an  age  extend- 
ing a  very  few  years  beyond  the  full  three  score  years  and 
ten  of  the  life  of  man.  There  are  those  yet  living  who  were 
born  into  the  world  before  us  ! 

And  then,  when  we  began  our  career,  in  our  very  first  . 
years,  we  took  some  liberties  with  the  Prayer  Book  of  our 
Mother  Church,  which  we  found  in  our  hands.  Nothing 
vital  was  changed.  No  article  of  the  Faith,  no  essential 
point  of  order  was  touched.  In  some  things  the  work  of 
revision  was  fortunate ;  in  others  not  so  very  happy.  Our 
changes,  slight  as  they  were,  excited  anxiety  in  the  Mother 
Church ;  and  abundant  and  satisfactory  as  have  been  the 
testimonies  of  sympathy  and  regard  received  by  us  from 
that  Church  since,  I  am  afraid  it  must  be  confessed  that  those 
feelings  of  solicitude — of  distrust,  if  you  please, — have  never 
yet  been  entirely  removed  from  the  mind  of  all  her  members. 
There  are  not  a  few  devout  and  enlightened  persons  in  the 
Church  of  England  who  have  yet  to  be  emancipated  from 


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the  illusion  (if  it  be  one)  tliat  the  organization  of  our  Church 
is  an  experiment. 

Let  not  our  pride  be  too  easily  irritated.  Let  us  be  mod- 
est and  patient ;  let  us  be  prudent  and  reserved  ;  slow  to 
engage  in  adventurous  enterprises.  If,  for  example,  our 
magnificent  English  version  of  the  Holy  Scriptures  should 
ever  seem  to  call  for  revision,  let  us  not  attempt  to  move 
without  the  concurrence  and  co-operation  of  the  whole  An- 
glican Communion.  Let  us  leave  it  to  our  Mother  Church 
to  take  the  lead.  Or  if  we  become  smitten  with  an  irresis- 
tible conviction  of  conscience  that  we  must  deal  critically 

t/ 

with  one  of  the  Catholic  Creeds,  that  we  must  agitate  the 
old  question  of  the  Filioque ;  still  let  us  first  take  counsel 
with  our  venerable  mother ;  or,  at  least,  consider  whether  it 
would  not  be  unwise  for  us  in  such  a  matter  to  take  prece- 
dence of  her.  Or  again,  if  we  desire  to  enter  into  closer  re- 
lations with  a  foreign  Church,  and  by  correspondence  and 
acts  of  intercommunion  determine  certain  debateable  ques- 
tions respecting  her  history  and  principles,  is  it  not,  for  the 
same  reason,  worthy  of  consideration  whether  it  would  not 
be  safer  for  us,  as  well  as  more  becoming  in  us,  to  wait  for 
the  action  of  a  Body  which  has  so  much  more  age  and  ex- 
perience, and  so  much  more  learning  ?  And  if  the  Mother 
Church  be  notoriously  slow  to  move  in  such  matters,  so 
much  the  better ;  we  shall  be  the  less  liable  to  be  misled  by 
inconsiderate  action. 

These  observations  will  probably  encounter  some  national 
prejudices,  and  possibly  in  some  quarters  irritate  a  little  the 
pride  which  every  warm-hearted  Churchman  must  feel  in 
his  own  spiritual  household.  They  have  been  made  after 
much  reflection,  and  from  a  deep  conviction  that  our  safety, 
our  dignity  and  respectability  as  an  independent  branch  of 
the  Church,  our  chance  of  future  influence  and  usefulness  in 
any  such  general  council  of  the  whole  Anglican  Communion 
as  that  which  was  convened  at  Lambeth  last  year,  will  de- 
pend more  than  we  are  apt  to  suspect,  upon  our  prudence  in 
council,  our  modesty  and  reserve  in  action,  our  habitual  dis* 


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inclination  to  embark  in  novel  and  adventurous  schemes ! 
O!  at  home,  in  the  vast,  ever-extending  field  which  Provi- 
dence has  given  us  to  cultivate,  we  have  enough  and  more 
than  enough  to  tax  to  tlie  very  uttermost  our  wisdom  in 
council,  our  courage,  self-devotion,  and  energy  in  Christian 
enterprise  and  Christian  work.  God  most  merciful  help  us 
to  be  faithful  in  this  great  work  !  give  us  a  spirit  of  unity, 
wisdom,  zeal  and  love,  and  teach  us  how  to  enthrone  His 
truth  and  His  grace*  in  all-prevailing  might  upon  every 
height,  and  in  every  valley,  over  every  city,  every  hamlet, 
every  separate  dwelling-place  from  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific ! 

When  I  landed  on  these  shores  in  the  Autumn  of  1852,  on 
my  return  from  Europe,  one  of  the  first  persons  whom  I  met 
was  the  late  Bishop  of  Montreal,  afterwards  Metropolitan  of  all 
Canada.  As  an  act  of  Christian  courtesy,  and  to  encourage 
friendly  intercommunion  between  the  two  branches  of  the 
Church,  he  had  come  down  from  his  Diocese  to  unite  in  the 
consecration  of  my  lamented  predecessor.  Only  two  years 
later,  in  November,  1854,  the  Episcopal  seat  in  this  Diocese, 
so  soon  made  vacant  by  death,  had  to  be  filled  by  another 
consecration.  At  my  request,  seconded  by  the  authorities 
of  this  Diocese,  the  Bishop  of  Montreal  had  the  great  kind- 
ness to  come  to  us  again,  to  preach  and  to  unite  in  the  impo- 
sition of  hands  at  my  consecration.  In  the  following  winter 
I  accepted  his  invitation  to  attend  his  Church  anniversaries 
in  Montreal,  and  be  with  him  at  the  triennial  meeting  of  his 
Clergy.  It  was  easy  to  see  with  what  wisdom  he  was  organ- 
izing the  work  of  his  Diocese :  and  no  one  could  be  with  him 
for  a  day  in  the  midst  of  such  scenes  without  being  won  by 
the  engaging  sweetness  and  benignity  of  his  character.  At 
the  opening  services  of  our  last  General  Convention  he  again 
appeared,  in  response  to  our  call,  as  the  preacher.  With 
what  persuasive  wisdom  he  discharged  the  somewhat  delicate 
duty,  many  in  this  present  assembly  can  bear  witness.  In 
the  House  of  Bishops,  where  he  sat  for  some  days,  and  every 
where  in  society,  he  left  the  most  pleasing  impressions,  im- 


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pressions  which  have  done  good  in  many  ways.  In  the 
Conference  at  Lambeth,  where  I  last  saw  him  seated  on  one 
side  of  the  Primate,  among  his  brother  Metropolitans,  he 
was  the  same  gentle,  elevated.  Christian  Bishop,  most  unaf- 
fected  in  his  bearing,  most  sagacious  and  prudent  in  counsel. 
Most  unexpectedly  the  Church  has  lost  him.  I  count  it  a 
personal  loss ;  and  such  was  my  feeling  toward  him,  and  my 
estimate  of  his  character,  that  it  seems  to  me  (I  say  it  with- 
out disparagement  to  others)  almost  as  jf  the  light  of  the 
Canadian  Church  had  been  taken  away. 

In  our  own  Diocese  we  have  to  record  the  death  of  the  Rev. 
Henry  H.  Bates,  the  Rev.  William  G.  Hyer,  the  Rev.  Or- 
mond  H.  Dutton,  who,  in  a  brief  ministry  in  this  parish,  had 
made  himself  so  warmly  beloved,  the  Rev.  John  Grigg,  and 
very  recently  the  Rev.  George  H.  Crowe,  a  Deacon. 

One  venerable  and  honored  Presbyter  of  this  Diocese,  op- 
pressed with  the  weight  of  years,  but  not  chilled  in  his  love 
for  the  Church  or  in  his  devotion  to  duty,  retires  from  the 
ofiicial  station  which  he  has  so  long  and  ably  filled  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Standing  Committee— the  Rev.  John  McYlckar, 
D.  D.,  for  half  a  century  a  Professor  in  Columbia  College. 
What  a  historical  name  in  this  Diocese!  How  steadfast  in 
his  principles,  how  far-reaching  in  hisviews,  and  how  elevated 
in  all  his  thoughts  and  sentiments !  May  the  rays  of  that 
Sun  which  never  sets  to  the  Christian  heart  shine  brightly 
and  cheerily  along  his  path,  and  in  his  chamber,  until  faith, 
hope  and  love  change  into  the  bliss  and  glory  of  the  perfect 
day! 

1  beg  to  return  my  warmest  thanks  to  those  brethren  of 
the  Clergy  and  Laity  from  various  parts  of  the  Diocese  who 
have  united  in  efforts  to  send  some  small  measure  of  relief  to 
our  suffering  brethren  in  the  South.  Compared  with  the 
frightful  extent  of  the  destitution  and  distress,  the  amount  of 
our  offerings,  after  all  our  previous  efforts,  and  amidst  the 
multitude  of  claims  that  are  ever  pressing  upon  us,  was 
necessarily  quite  limited.  But  such  relief  as  we  were  able 
to  send  was  most  gratefully  and  repeatedly  acknowledc^ed  • 

3  "^     ' 


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and  I  have  abundant  asBurance  that  it  carried  some  gU'ams 
of  comfort  to  many  desolate  liomes. 

During  the  session  of  the  approaching  General  Convention 
the  attention  of  the  Church   will  probably  be  called  to  the 
great  need  of  some  special  provision  for  female  education  at 
the  South.     Owing  to  the  widespi-ead  rnin,  tiiere  is  danger 
that  thousands  of  parents  will  have  superadded  to  their  other 
sorrows,  the  distress  of  seeing  their  daughters  growing  up 
almost  wholly  deprived  of  the  advantages  enjoyed  by  their 
mothers.     There  is  a  Church  stepping 'in  to  make  extensive 
provision  for  good  and  cheap  female  edncation.     If  our  loud 
professions  of  zeal  for  a  pure  faith  and  worship  are  any  thing 
better  than  loud  professions,  there  ought  to  be  no  difficulty 
m  securing  for  the  future  mothers  of  the  South  an  education 
which  shall  be  within  their  means,  and  at  the  same  time 
healthful  alike  to  the  intellect  and  the  conscience.     1  can 
only  bespeak  your  earnest  attention  to  the  subject  whenever 
it  shall  be  presented,  and  also  to  the  Freedmen's  Commission 
of  our  Church. 

And,  my  brethren,  I  do  most  earnestly  hope  that  means 
will  be  found  to  assist  our  noble-hearted  Southern  Bishops  in 
the  efforts  they  are  making  to  secure  maintainance  for  their 
Clergy,  to  prevent  their  Dioceses  from  being  given  over  to 
spiritual  desolation.  Churches  arc  closed  because  the  means 
of  support  cannot  be  found  for  the  Minister  of  the  Church  of 
God !    Brethren,  these  things  ought  not  so  to  be. 

I  have  great  satisfaction  in  stating  that  in  our  General 
Theological  Seminary  the  attendance  during  the  past  year 
has  been  large,  while  the  instruction  has  been  distinguished 
by  ability  and  thoroughness,  and  at  the  same  time  by  the 
depth  and  moderation  which  belong  to  the  well-tried,  staunch, 
old  theology  of  our  Mother  Church. 

One  word  only  in  conclusion,  in  reference  to  the  new  Dio- 
ceses about  to  be  formed  out  of  portions  of  the  Diocese  of 
New-York.  Without  anticipating  the  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee,  now  soon  to  be  presented,  I  trust  I  only  express  the 
general  feeling  of  this  part  of  the  Diocese  when  I  say,  that 


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the.  remaining  and  old  Diocese  of  Kew-York  ought  ever  to 
cherish  a  warm  interest  in  those  whom  she  is  now  dismissing 
to  a  separate  and  independent  existence.  Especially  ought 
this  to  be  so  in  regard  to  the  new  Diocese  in  the  North. 
For  a  long  time  to  come  her  feeble  parishes  and  mission  sta- 
tions will  be  numerous  in  proportion  to  her  self-supporting 
and  wealthy  parishes.  She  has  been  willing  to  make  this 
venture  of  faith ;  and  undoubtedly  in  every  such  case,  the 
true  interest  and  dignity  of  a  Diocese  will  be  best  promoted 
in  the  long  run,  by  cultivating  a  spirit  of  independence  and 
self-reliance.  Nevertheless  they  are  our  brethren,  with  whom 
we  have  Ions:  taken  sweet  counsel,  and  I  trust  that  our  hearts 
will  ever  be  open  to  reasonable  appeals  in  behalf  of  their 
pious  and  charitable  works.  It  will  be  remembered  that  at 
the  last  Annual  Convention  a  Committee  was  appointed  to 
endeavor  to  raise  an  endowment  of  forty  thousand  dollars, 
in  addition  to  the  endowment  of  forty  thousand  dollars  for 
the  Episcopate  to  be  raised  in  the  North.  So  long  as  the 
success  of  the  Northern  eflbrt  was  matter  of  doubt,  it  was 
impossible  for  the  Committee  to  make  any  progress  with 
their  work  in  this  part  of  the  Diocese.  Now  that  the  success 
in  the  North  and  the  organization  of  a  Diocese  there  are  be- 
come a  certainty,  I  hope  that  further  efforts  here  may  be 
more  prosperous.  Trinity  Church  encourages  these  efforts 
by  offering  $5,000,  on  condition  that  the  entire  sum  of 
$40,000  be  made  up  in  this  part  of  th«  Diocese.  I  would 
recommend  that  the  Committee  appointed  at  the  last  Con- 
vention be  continued,  with  a  view  to  a  renewal  of  their 
efforts,  and  I  would  most  heartily  commend  them  to  the 
good-will  and  liberality  of  our  brethren  in  this  section  of  the 

Diocese. 

With  regard  to  the  future  support  of  missions  in  the  new 
Diocese  in  the  North,  I  think  our  action  ought  to  be  liberal, 
and  at  the  same  time  circumspect.  This  body,  as  at  present 
constituted,  is  obviously  not  the  proper  body  to  pass  any  vote 
pledging  future  support  to  northern  missions.  For,  in  the 
first  place,  those  members  of  this  Convention  which   belong 


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to  Long  Island,  will  soon  leave  ns ;  they  will  not  be  here  to 
assist  us  in  redeeming  our  pledge,  and  therefore  it  would  be 
obviously  improper  for  them  to  assist  by  their  votes  in  bind- 
ing us  to  any  such  pledge.  And  in  the  second  place,  those 
members  of  this  Convention  who  will  belong  to  the  new  Dio- 
cese in  the  North,  will  not  only  not  be  with  us  to  assist  us 
in  paying  what  we  should  promise  to  pay,  but  they  are  the 
very  persons  who  are  to  receive  whatever  we  might  engage 
to  pay,  and  therefore  it  would  hardly  be  delicate  or  reasonable 
for  them  to  cast  their  weight  into  any  vote  in  this  present 
body  on  that  subject.  The  utmost  extent  to  which  it  seems 
to  me  proper  for  this  present  Convention  to  go,  is  to  pass  a 
resolution  authorizing  the  Missionary  Committee  to  pay  the 
missionaries  in  the  northern  section  their  promised  stipends 
up  to  the  close  of  the  present  year  of  their  appointment,  the 
first  day  of  April,  and  then  further  authorizing  the  Com- 
mittee to  pay  over  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Mission  Fund  of 
the  new  Diocese,  for  the  use  of  their  missions,  such  sums 
(until  our  next  annual  Convention)  as  shall  be  consistent  with 
their  means,  but  not  exceeding  tl$^  present  gross  sum  paid  by 
our  Missionary  Committee  to  the  missionaries  now  within 
that  northern  section.  Any  further  action  by  us  in  reference 
to  future  years  should,  I  think,  be  reserved  for  our  next 
annual  Convention,  when  our  Convention  will  consist  only  of 
those  members  who  will  have  to  assist  in  meeting  whatever 
obligations  we  assume. 

What  we  may  think  it  right  to  do  at  our  next  annual  Con- 
vention, we  can  better  determine  when  the  time  shall  arrive. 
If  our  situation  should  not  be  materially  changed  in  the 
meantime,  I  think  I  should  be  inclined  to  propose  at  our 
next  annual  Convention,  that  we  undertake  to  pay  to  the 
northern  Diocese,  for  their  internal  missions,  certain  sums  for 
four  or  five  years,  beginning  with  say  $4,000  or  $5,000,  and 
diminishing  each  year  until  at  the  end  of  the  fifth  year  they 
should  cease  altogether.  I  say  such  is  my  present  view,  and 
I  believe  it  would  meet  the  present  views  of  this  portion  of 
the  Diocese.    But  it  is  easy  to  see  that  circumstances  might 


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so  change  as  to  make  such  an  arrangement  neither  expedient 
nor  equitable. 

Of  my  feelings  toward  those  portions  of  the  Diocese  which 
are  soon  to  be  separated  from  us,  I  have  already  said  enough 
in  the  early  pages  of  this  Address.  I  shall  love  to  see  them 
prosperous,  peaceful  and  happy.  May  that  unity  which  for 
more  than  twenty  years  I  delighted  to  recognise  among  the 
Clergy  of  the  North  continue  to  be  their  blessed  portion  ! 
And  every  where  may  the  greatness  of  our  work,  and  the 
blessedness  of  our  hope,  and  the  substantial  identity  of  our 
'aims  and  associations,  and  an  all-constraining  love  for  our  dear 
Lord  and  Saviour,  the  one  supreme  desire  of  all  our  souls, 
bind  us  together  more  and  more  in  unity  of  spirit  and  in  the 
bond  of  peace, — insensibly  sealing  us  up  and  making  us 
ready,  through  His  merits  and  His  grace,  for  the  eternal  and 
ineftable  joys  of  His  adorable  presence. 


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DETAILED  ACCOUNT  OF  VISITATIONS  AND  ACTS. 

The  following  is  an  account*  of  the  places  visited  and  the 
Episcopal  Acts  performed  by  me  since  the  last  Convention  : 

1887.  Sept.  25.— The  Annual  Convention  assembled,  organized,  and  ad- 
journed to  a  future  day,  making  tbe  beginning  of  a  new  Conventional  year. 

Sept.'i^.  Feast  of  St.  Michael's  and  All  Angels.-^l  preached  in  the  Cathe- 
dral of  Lincoln,  England. 

Oct.  3,  Tkursday.-^l  attended  the  Church  Congress  at  Wolverhampton 
England.  ' 

« 

Oct.  20,  ElgUeenth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.— In  Trinity  Churcli,  New- 
York,  I  advanced  to  the  Priesthood  the  Hev.  William  Leacock,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Dix  preaching. 

Oct.  21,  Monday.^hx  the  request  of  the  Clergy,  I  met  them  in  Trinity 
Chapel,  New-York,  for  a  service  of  thanksgiving  for  my  safe  return  to  the 
Diocese,  on  which  occasion  addresses  were  presented  to  me  by  the  Clergy  and 
by  the  Professors  and  students  of  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  Ld  an 
address  was  delivered  by  me. 

Oct.  %Wi,  Nineteenth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.— I  preached  in  the 
Church  of  the  Mediator,  South  Yonkers. 

P.  M.— I  delivered  an  address  in  Christ  Church,  Riverdale. 

Noy^.  3,  Tmntieth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  Evening.— I  presided  in  Calvary 
Church,  New- York,  at  a  service  held  in  the  interest  of  the  Midnight  Mission. 
Sermon  by  the  Bishop  of  Western  New- York. 

Nov.  10,  Twenty-first  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.— I  preached  in  Christ 
Church,  Poughkeepsie. 

Evening.— Preached  in  the  same  Church. 

Nov,  17,  Twenty-second  Sunday  after  Trinity,  Evening.— In  St.  Mary's 
Church,  Manhattanville,  I  confirmed  twenty-one,  and  addressed  them. 

Nov.  22.  Friday,  A.  M.— In  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Walden,  I  preached,  con- 
firmed  eighteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Nov.  23,  Saturday,  A.  M.— In  St.  John's  Church,  Canterbury,  I  preached, 
confirmed  nine,  and  addressed  them. 

Nov.  24,  Sunday  before  Advent,  A.  M.— In  Newburgh,  I  preached  on  occa- 
fiion  of  the  opening  of  the  new  Church  of  St.  Paul's. 


*  Note.— In  this  account  there  may  be  an  occasional  hiatus  in  consequence  of  a  loss  of  pa- 
pers.   On  information  from  the  Clergy,  the  deficiency  may  be  supplied  in  a  fature  Journal. 


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P.  M.— In  the  same  Church,  I  confirmed  ticeke,  and  briefly  addressed 
them. 

J!iov.  28,  Thursday,  A.  M.-Being  the  day  of  Thanksgiving,  I  preached  in 
St.  Luke's  Church,  NeAv-York. 

JVi^.  29,  Fnda^,  Evening.-In  the  Church  of  St.  James  the  Less,  Scars- 
dale,  I  preached,  confirmed  ten,  and  addressed  them. 

Dec.  1,  Advent  Sunday,  A.  M.— In  St.  Ann's  Church  for  Deaf  Mutes,  New- 
lork,  at  the  early  service,  I  confirmed  twenty-two,  (part  of  them  mutes,)  and 
addressed  them. 

Dec.  8,  Second  Sunday  in  Advent,  Evening.-I  preached  in  St.  Michael's 
Church,  Brooklyn. 

Bee.  10,  Tuesday.— I  met  the  Northern  Convocation  in  St.  Peter's  Church, 
Albany,  presiding,  and  in  the  evening  making  a  short  address.  Sermon  by 
Br.  Morgan,  of  St.  Thomas'  Church,  New-York. 

Dec.  12,  Thursday,  A.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Innocents,  Annan- 
dale,  I  met  the  Dutchess  County  Convocation,  and  on  the  same  occasion  con- 
firmed twelve,  and  addressed  them. 

18G8.  Jan.  19,  Secrnid  Sunday  after  EpipJiany,  A.  M.— I  officiated  at  the 
opening  of  the  Church  of  the  Resurrection,  New-York,  and  on  the  same  occa- 
sion, at  a  special  ordination,  I  admitted  Mr.  George  Fisher  to  the  Diaconate, 
and  advanced  to  the  Priesthood  the  Rev.  Francis  Fenelon  Rice  and  the  Rev! 
Toliver  Franklin  Caskey,  A.  B. 

Evening.— I  preached  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Church  of  the  Ascension,  New- 
York. 

Feb.  I,  Saturday.— I  visited  the  House  of  Mercy,  New-York,  received  a 
Probationer  into  the  Sisterhood,  and  administered  the  Holy  Communion. 

Feb.  2,  Purification,  and  Fourth  Sunday  after  Epiphany,  P.  M.— In  St. 
George's  Church,  Astoria.  I  preached,  confirmed  thirteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Feb.  6,  Thursday,  Evening.— Attended  an  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee  of  the  City  Mission  Society,  and  read  a  communication  to 
the  Committee. 

Feb.  13,  Thursday,  Evening.— In  St.  Michael's  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  con- 
firmed nineteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Feb.  14,  Friday.^l  met  a  Committee  on  Church  business. 

Feb.  16,  Sexagesima  Sunday,  A.  M.— In  Trinity  Chapel,  Factoryville,  S.  I., 
I  confirmed  seventeen,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.— In  St.  John's  Church,  Clifton,  I  confirmed  nineteen,  and  addressed 
them. 

Feb.  20,  Thursday.— I  met  a  Committee  on  Church  business. 

Feb.  23,  Quinquagesima  Sunday,  A.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Ascension, 
Green  Point,  I  preached,  confirmed  twenty-three,  and  addressed  them,  and 
at  a  special  ordination  admitted  to  the  Diaconate  Melville  C.  Keith.  On  the 
same  day,  in  Zion  Church,  New-York,  at  my  request,  the  Rev.  James  Murray, 
Deacon,  was  advanced  to  the  Priesthood  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Southgate. 

Feb.  24,  Monday.— 1  met  the  Domestic  Committee. 

Feb.  26,  Wednesday,  Evening.— I  met  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Re- 
ligion  and  Learning. 


Feb  27,  Thursday,  Evening.-In  Grace  Church,  Jamaica,  I  preached,  con. 
nrmed  twenty-seven,  and  addressed  them. 

March  1,  First  Sunday  in  Lent,  P.  M.-In  the  Chapel  of  our  Saviour  for 
beamen,  I  connrmed  fifteen,  and  addressed  them. 

March  2,  Monday. -I  met  the  Trustees  of  Columbia  Colleore. 

March  15,  Third  Sunday  in  Lent,  A.  M.-In  St.  Paul's  Church,  Flat- 
rnisli,  I  preached,  and  at  a  special  ordination  advanced  the  Rev.  Solomon  F. 
Dunham  Assistant  Minister  of  Christ  Church,  New-York,  and  the  Rev.  Fred- 
erick  B  Van  Kleeck,  of  Trinity  Parish,  New-York,  and  son  of  the  Rector  of 
bt.  Paul  s  Church,  Flatbush,  to  the  Priesthood.  On  the  same  occasion  I  con- 
tinned  thirty-four,  and  briefly  addressed  them. 

March  22,  Fourth  Sunday  in  Lent,  A.  M.-In  the  Church  of  the  Advent, 
New-York,  I  preached,  confirmed  twelve,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M^In  the  Church  of  the  Annunciation,  New-York,  I  confirmed  twenty- 
five,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.-In  St.  Clement's  Church,  I  preached,  confirmed  twenty  five,  and 
addressed  them. 

March  23,  Monday,  P.  M.-I  preached  at  a  meeting  of  the  Clergy  and 
Laity  of  the  city  and  vicinity,  which  I  had  called  to  take  measures  for  the 
rehef  of  our  brethren  of  the  Clergy  and  Laity  of  the  South. 

March  25,  Wednesday,  Evening.-In  the  Church  of  the  Intercession,  Car- 
mansville,  I  confirmed  ten,  and  addressed  them. 

March  29,  Fifth  Sunday  in  Lent,  A.  M.-In  St.  Peter's  Church,  New-York 
I  confirmed  thirty,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.-In  the  Church  of  St.  John  Baptist,  New  York,  I  preached,  confirmed 
twenty,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.-In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Apostles,  New-York,  I  confirmed 
fifty-two,  and  addressed  them. 

March  30,  Mmday,  Evening.-In  St.  Peter's  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed 
thirty-five,  and  addressed  them. 

ApHl  1,  Wednesday,  Evening.-In  the  German  Mission  Chapel  of  St. 
George's  Church,  under  the  Rev.  Dr.  Schramm,  and  after  a  sermon  by  him 
m  German,  I  confirmed  thirty-mx,  and  briefly  addressed  them.  They  were 
also  addressed,  at  my  request,  by  the  Rector  of  St.  George's. 

April  2,   Thursday,  Evening.-In  the  English  Mission  Chapel  of  St 
George's  Church,  New-York,  under  the  care  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Stephenson   I 
confirmed  fm^ty-seven,  and  addressed  them.    They  were  also.addressed  bv  the 
Rector  of  St.  George's. 

Apnl  5,  Sunday  before  Easter,  A.  M.-In  St.  Thomas'  Church,  New-York 
I  confirmed  twenty,  and  addressed  them.  ' 

P.  M.-In  Grace  Church,  Brooklyn  Heights,  I  confirmed  thirty-eight,  (one 
ot  them  in  private,)  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.-In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  New-York,  I  confirmed  mghty- 
four,  and  addressed  them. 

April  6,  Monday  before  Easter,  P.  M.-In  the  Church  Du  St.  Esprit  New- 
York,  includmg  for  the  time  the  congregation  of  that  Church  and  also  that 
of  the  Spanish  Church  of  Santiago,  I  confirmed  thirty-four,  (twenty-two  French 
and  twelve  Spanish,)  and  addressed  them. 


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Evening. — In  St.  Mark's  Church,  Williamsburgh,  I  preached,  confirmed 
fifteen,  (one  of  them  in  private,)  and  addressed  them. 

Apr-il  7,  Tuesday,  A.  M. — In  St.  Bartholomew's  Church,  New- York,  I  con- 
firmed forty,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M. — In  Calvary  Church,  New- York,  I  confirmed  sixteen,  and  addressed 
them. 

April  8,  Wednesday,  A.  M. — In  the  Church  of  our  Saviour,  New- York,  I 
confirmed  eight,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening. — In  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  New- York,  I  confirmed  forty-one,  and 
addressed  them. 

Ap?Hl  9,  Thursday,  A.  M. — In  the  Church  of  the  Ascension,  New- York,  I 
confirmed  thirty  four,  and  addressed  them,  several  of  them  being  from  the 
Mission  Chapel. 

Evening. — In  the  Church  of  the  R<^formation,  Brooklyn,  I  preached,  con- 
firmed twenty  four,  and  addressed  them. 

April  10,  Good  Fnday,  A.  M. — In  St.  George's  Church,  New- York,  I  con- 
firmed twenty  four,  and  addressed  them,  the  Rector  preaching  at  my  request. 

P.  M. — In  St.  Mark's  <^hurch.  New- York,  I  confirmed  sixty-three,  {forty-one 
being  from  the  Mission  Chapel,)  and  addressed  them. 

Evening. — In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  Now-York,  I  confirmed /c>r^i/, 
and  addressed  th'em. 

April  11,  Easter  Evening,  A.  M. — In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Communion, 
New- York,  I  confirmed  fifty-six,  {four  of  them  from  St.  Luke's  Hospital  and 
four  from  Grace  Church,)  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M. — In  Trinity  Church,  New- York,  I  c.QnfixmQ^  forty -two,  and  addressed 
them. 

April  12,  Easter  Bay,  A.  M. — In  the  Church  of  the  Atonement,  New- York, 
I  preached,  confirmed  ten,  and  addressed  them. 

4  P.  M. — In  St.  Alban's  Church,  New- York,  I  confirmed  twenty-three,  and 

addressed  them. 

» 

6  P.  M. — In  St.  Timothy's  Church,  New- York,  I  confirmed  twenty,  and 
addressed  them. 

Evening. — In  the  Memorial  Church  of  Bishop  Wainwright,  New- York,  I 
confirmed  twenty-nine,  and  addressed  them. 

April  13,  Monday,  P.  M. — In  St.  Thomas' Church,  Ravenswood,  L.  I.,  I 
confirmed  seventeen,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening. — In  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer,  Astoria,  I  confirmed  thii'ty-nine, 
and  addressed  them. 

April  15,  Wednesday,  A.  M. — In  New-Rochelle,  I  confirmed  twenty,  and 
addressed  them. 

Evening. — In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre,  New- York,  I  confirmed 
sixteen,  and  addressed  them. 

April  16,  Thursday,  Evening. — In  St.  Luke's  Church,  New- York,  I  con- 
firmed thirty-five,  {on^  of  them  in  private,)  and  addressed  them. 

April  19,  First  Sunday  after  Easter,  A.  M.— In  St.  John's  Chapel,  New- 
York.  I  confirmed  seventy t  {one  of  them  in  private,)  and  addressed  them. 


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P.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer,  Yorkville,  I  confirmed  twenty-one, 
and  addressed  them.    The  Service  was  held  in  their  new  and  beautiful  edifice. 

Evening.— In  Trinity  Chapel,  New-York,  I  confirmed  forty-two,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

April  20,  Mo7iday,  2  P.  M.— In  Immanuel  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed 
seventeen,  and  addressed  them. 

4  P.  M.— In  the  Chapel  of  St.  Ann's  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed  twenty- 
five,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  St.  Ann's  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed  forty-seven,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

April  22,  Wednesday,  P.  M.— In  St.  Paul's  Church,  Poughkeepsie,  I  con- 
firmed seven,  and  addressed  them. 

■   Evening.— In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Innocents,  Poughkeepsie,  I  confirmed 
thirty-eight,  and  addressed  them.  -     , 

April  23,  Thursday,  A.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  Poughkeepsie,  I  confirmed 
^t<?6?2%-^/ir6^,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  St.  Paul's  Church,  Albany,  I  confirmed  twenty-six,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

Apnl  24,  Fnday,  A.  M.— In  Grace  Church,  Albany,  I  confirmed  twenty, 
and  addressed  them.  ... 

P.  M.— In  St.  Peter's  Church,  Albany,  I  confirmed  forty-eight,  and  ad 
dressed  them. 

Evening.— In  Trinity  Church,  Albany,  I  confirmed  twelve,  {one  of  them  in 
private,)  and  addressed  them.  . 

April  25,  Saturday,  P.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Innocents,  Albany, 
J  confirmed  twelm,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  Trinity  Church,  West  Troy,  I  confirmed  fourteen,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

Later  the  same  Evening.— In  St.  Mark's  Church,  Green  Island,  I  confirmed 
forty-six,  and  addressexi  them. 

•  April  26,  Second  Sunday  after  Easter,  A.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Cross,  Troy,  I  confirmed  twenty-three,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  Troy,  I  confirmed  nine,  {one  of  them  in  private,) 
and  addressed  them. 

Later  in  the  P.  M.— In  St.  Paul's  Church,  Troy,  I  confirmed  forty-eight, 
and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  St.  John's  Church,  Troy,  I  confirmed  seventeen,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

April  27,  Monday,  P.  M.— In  Grace  Church,  Waterford,  I  confirmed  sixteen, 
{one  of  them  in  private,)  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  St.  John's  Church,  Cohoes,  I  confirmed  fifty-nine,  {one  of 
them  in  private,)  and  addressed  them. 

April  28,  Tuesday,  P.  M,— In  Trinity  Church,  Claverack,  I  preached,  con- 
firmed/owr,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  Christ  Church,  Hudson,  I  Qon^rrnQdi  fifty-seven ,  {two  of  them 
in  private,)  and  addressed  them. 


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April  29,  Wednesday,  P.  M.— In  St.  Ann's  Church,  Matteawan,  I  preached, 
confirmed  eleven,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  the  Church  of  St.  John  Baptist,  Glenham,  I  preached,  con- 
flnned  Jive,  and  addressed  them. 

April  30,  Thursday,  Evening.— In  St.  Mary's  Church,  Cold  Spring,  I  con- 
finned  thirty-five,  and  addressed  them. 

May  2,  Saturday,  Evening.— In  St.  Philip's  Church,  (colored,)  New-York, 
I  confirmed  twenty-six,  and  addressed  them.  The  edifice  in  its  interior  has 
been  much  improved,  and  the  Congregation  large  and  interesting. 

May  3,  Third  Sunday  after  Easter,  A.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  New-York,  I 
confirmed  ticenty-nine,  {one  of  them  m  private,)  and  addressed  them,  and  con- 
secrated and  assisted  in  the  Holy  Communion. 

P.  M.— In  St.  Ann's  Church  for  Deaf  Mutes,  New-York,  I  confirmed //ify- 
five,  (one  of  them  in  private,  and  two  from  the  Church  for  the  Blind,)  and 
addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  St.  John's  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed  fifty-one,  and  ad- 

dressed  them. 

May  4,  Monday,  Evening.— In  St.  James'  Church,  Fordham,  I  confirmed 
eighteen,  and  addressed  them,  and  consecrated  in  the  Holy  Communion. 

May  6,  Wednesday,  Evening.— In  Trinity  Church,  East  New-York,  I  con- 
firmed/oMr^e^/i,  and  addressed  them  and  the  congregation. 

May  7,  Thursday,  Evening.— In  St.  Barnabas'  House,  New- York,  I  con- 
firmed fifteen,  and  addressed  them. 

May  10,  Fourth  Sunday  after  Easter,  A.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Re- 
deemer, Brooklyn,  I  preached,  confirmed  twenty-three,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.— In  the  Church  of  Our  Saviour,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed  twenty-nine, 

and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  Calvary  Church  Chapel,  New-York,  I  confirmed  foi'ty,  and 

addressed  them. 

May  11,  Monday,  Evening.— In  the  Chapel  of  the  Holy  Cross,  connected 
with  Trinity  Parish,  New-York,  I  confirmed  thirty-eight,  and  addressed  them. 
This  is  a  prosperous  work. 

May  13,  Wednesday,  Evening.— In  the  Anthon  Memorial  Church,  New- 
York,  I  confirmed  sixteen,  and  addressed  them. 

May  14,  Thursday,  Evening.— In  the  Mission  Chapel  of  the  Holy  Trinity 
in  84th-street,  New-York,  I  confirmed  three,  and  addressed  them  and  the 
congregation. 

On  the  same  day.— In  St.  George's  Church,  Schenectady,  by  the  Rt.  Rev. 
the  Bishop  of  Colorado,  officiating  at  my  T&iVi^^X,  forty -three  were  confirmed. 

May  16,  Saturday,  Evening.— In  the  Church  of  the  Reformation,  New- 
York,  the  Right  Rev.  Dr.  Southgate,  acting  by  my  request,  confirmed  eleven, 
and  addressed  them. 

May  17,  Fifth  Sunday  after  Easter,  A.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Trans- 
figuration, New- York,  I  confirmed  thirty-six,  and  addressed  them. 

"p.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  New-Brighton,  S.  I.,  I  confirmed  fifteen,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 


THE   BISHOP   OP  NEW-YORK,    1868. 


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Evening.— In  St.  Paul's  Church,  Tompkinsville,  S.  I.,  I  preached,  confirmed 
ten,  and  addressed  them. 

May  18,  Monday,  A.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  Pelham,  I  preached,  confirmed 
nine,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  Rye,  I  preached,  confirmed  five,  and  addressed 
them. 

Evening.— In  St.  Peter's  Church,  Portchester,  I  preached,  confirmed  six- 
teen, and  addressed  them. 

May  20,  Wednesday,  Evening.— In  the  Mission  Chapel  of  the  Reconcilia- 
tion, (Mission  of  the  "  Incarnation,"  New-York,)  I  confirmed  twenty-one,  and 
addressed  them. 

May  21,  Ascension  Day,  Evening.— In  the  Church  of  the  Incarnation, 
New-York,  I  confirmed  fourteen,  {one  of  them  in  private,)  and  addressed 
them. 

May  23,  Saturday,  Evening.— In  the  Mission  Chapel  of  the  Holy  Trinity, 
New- York,  (cor.  of  50th-street  and  11th  Avenue,)  I  confirmed  tweiity,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

May  24,  Sunday  after  Ascension,  A.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  Williamsburgh. 
I  confirmed  twelve,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.— In  Grace  Church,  Williamsburgh,  I  confirmed  twelve,  and  addressed 
them. 

Evening.— In  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Harlem,  I  preached,  confirmed  four- 
teen, and  addressed  them. 

May  25,  Monday,  P.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Mediator,  South  Yonkers,  I 
confirmed  fifteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  Grace  Church,  West  Farms,  I  confirmed  twenty-seven,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

May  27,  Wednesday,  P.  M.— In  Grace  Church,  New-York,  at  a  special  con- 
firmation, I  con^rmed  fourteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  St.  Mary's  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed  forty-one,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

May  28,  Thursday,  Evemng.— In  St.  Luke's  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed 
forty-two,  {two  from  St.  Mary's  Church,  Brooklyn,  and  three  from  the  Mission 
Chapel  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  Brooklyn,)  and  addressed  them. 

May  29,  Friday.— 1  presided  at  a  vast  gathering  of  children  at  Steinway 
Hall,  and  addressed  them.  Under  the  direction  of  tJie  Rev.  Dr.  Twins,  Gen- 
eral  Agent  of  the  Domestic  Committee  of  Missions,  many  thousand  children 
have  been  associated  together  in  connection  with  the  Domestic  Missionary 
work. 

May  31,  Whitsun-Day,  A.  M.— -In  St.  Paul's  Church,  Williamsburgh,  I 
preached,  confirmed  thirty-two,  and  addressed  them,  and  consecrated  and  as- 
sisted in  the  Holy  Communion. 

P.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  Bay  Ridge,  I  preached,  confirmed  seven,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

Evftn?nnr__Tn  St.  Ambrose  Church.  New-York.  I  confirmed  thirty-six,  and 


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June  1,  Monday. — I  started  for  Montpelier,  Vermont,  to  assist  at  the  Conse- 
cration of  tlie  Rev.  Dr.  Bissell,  Bishop  elect  of  Vermont. 
.   June  2,  Tuesday,  Evening. — I  preaclied  in  Christ  Church,  Montpelier. 

June  3,  Wednesday,  A.  M. — In  the  same  Churchy  I  assisted  as  one  of  the 
Consecrators,  at  the  Consecration  of  the  Bishop  elect  of  Vermont. 

June  0,  Saturday,  A.  M. — I  consecrated  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Comforter, 
Eltingville,  S.  I.,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Jessup,  of  Brooklyn,  preaching. 

June  7,  Trinity  Sunday,  A.  M.— In  Trinity  Chapel,  New-York,  the  Rev.  Br. 
Swope  preaching,  I  admitted  to  the  Diaconate  William  Henry  Capers,  Charles 
Bouton  Coffin,  Gouverneur  Cruger,  H^nry  L.  Foote,  John  M.  Heffernan,  Mor- 
timer A.  Hyde,  Robert  C.  Mcllwain,  E.  H.  Saunders,  George  Henry  Smith  and 
William  Bogert  Walker,  Alumni  of  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  and 
also  Benjamin  Franklin  Miller,  of  Massachusetts,  at  the  request  of  the  Bishop 
of  that  Diocese,  and  on  the  same  occasion  advanced  to  the  Priesthood  the 
Rev.  Henry  Duyckinck,  the  Rev.  Charles  Aldis  Wenman,  and  the  Rev.  Jo- 
seph  Warren  Hill. 

Evening.— In  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany,  New- York,  I  confirmed  tJiiriy' 
one,  and  addressed  them. 

June  9,  Tuesday,  A.  M. — I  met  the  Northern  Convocation  in  St.  James' 
Church,  Fort  Edward.  Preached,  confirmed  thirty-six,  {one  of  them  from 
Saratoga  Springs,)  and  addressed  them,  consecrated  and  assisted  in  the  Holy 
Eucharist. 

P.  M. — I  presided  at  a  business  meeting  of  the  Northern  Convocation. 

Evening. — I  preached  in  the  Church  of  the  Messiah,  Glen's  Falls,  confirmed 
eleven,  and  addressed  them. 

June  10,  Wednesday,  A.  M.— In  Bethesda  Church,  Saratoga  Springs,  I  con- 
firmed fourteen,  and  addressed  them. 

p.  M. — In  Christ  Church,  Ballston  Spa,  I  confirmed  thirty-one,  {one  of  them 
in  private,)  and  addressed  them. 

June  11,  Thursday,  St.  Barnabas'  Day,  A.  AL — I  was  occupied  with  duties 
in  Schenectady  and  Albany. 

Evening. — In  St.  Luke's  Church,  Troy,  (a  new  and  beautiful  Church  in  the 
south  part  of  the  city,)  I  confirmed  twelve,  and  addressed  them. 

June  13,  Saiurday.—W.  B.  Bolmer  was  admitted  to  the  Diaconate,  at  my 
request,  by  the  Rt.  Reverend  the  Bishop  of  Wisconsin. 

June  17,  Wednesday,  Evening. — In  Christ  Church,  Poughkeepsie,  I  pre- 
sided at  the  closing  religious  services  of  thfe  "  Cottage  Hill  Seminary,"  (under 
the  charge  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Rider,)  and  made  an  address.  Sermon  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Swope. 

June  19,  Friday,  A.  M.—In  St.  Peter's  Church,  Peekskill,  I  preached,  and 
at  a  special  ordination  advanced  the  Rev.  Wm.  N.  McVickar  to  the  Priesthood. 

also  confirmed  nine  persons,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.—In  Trinity  Church,  Sing  Sing,  (a  newly  organized  and  prosperous 
Parish,  in  charge  of  the  Rev.  Clarence  Buel,)  I  confirmed  ticeniy,  and  ad- 
dressed them.  .... 

June  21,  Second  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.—In  St.  Michael's  Church, 


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Bloomingdale,  I  confirmed  tioenty-eight,  and  addressed  them,  and  consecrated 
and  assisted  in  the  Holy  Communion. 

3  P.  M.—In  the  House  of  Mercy,  New-York,  I  confirmed /y^,  and  addressed 
them,  and  visited  a  sick  sister.  ^ 

4  P.  M.-In  the  Cliurch  of  All  Angels,  New-York,  I  confirmed  four,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

June  22,  Monday,  A.  M.—In  St.  Luke's  Church,  Rossville,  S.  L,  I  preached, 
confirmed  fifteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— I  met  the  Missionary  Committee  of  the  Diocese. 

June  23,  Tuesday,  Evening.— I  attended  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
General  Theological  Seminary. 

June  24,  Wednesday,  A.  M.— I  presided  at  a  breakfast  of  the  Alumni  of  the 
General  Theological  Seminary,  and  attended  to  other  duties  connected  with 
that  Institution. 

June  25,  Thursday,---!  attended  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  the  General 
Theological  Seminary. 

'June  20,  Friday,  A.  M.— I  attended  the  Annual  Commencement  of  the  same 
Institution. 

Evening.— In  Grace  Church,  Nyack,  I  confirmed  fourteen,  and  addressed  * 
them. 

June  27,  Saturday,  A.  M.—In  Christ  Church,  Plermont,  I  preached,  con- 
firmed/r^,  and  addressed  them. 

^  June  28,  Ihird  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.—In  the  Church  of  the  Na- 
tivity,. New-' York,  I  preached,  confirmed  twenty,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.—In  All  Saints'  Church,  Brooklyn,  I  confirmed  sixteen,  and  addressed 
them. 

Evening.— In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Martyrs,  New- York,  I  confirmed 
nine,  and  addressed  them. 

June  29,  Monday,  P.  M.—In  St.  John's  Church,  Greenwood,  I  confirmed 
thirteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Juns  30,  Tuesday,  Evening.- In  St.  James'  Church,  Goshen,  I  preached, 
confirmed /<??^r,  and  addressed  them. 

July  1,  Wednesday,  A.  M.—In  Grace  Church,  South  Middletown,  I  preached, 
confirmed  twenty  four,  and  addressed  them. 

July  2,  Thursday,  A.  M.—In  St.  John's  Church,  Monticello,  I  confirmed 
fourteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening.— In  Grace  Church,  Port  Jervis,  I  confirmed  seven,  {two  of  them 
from  Grace  Church,  South  Middletown,)  and  addressed  them. 

July  5,  Fourth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.—In  Christ  Cliurch,  Marl- 
borough.  I  preached,  confirmed  four,  and  addressed  them,  and  administered 
the  Holy  Communion. 

P.  M.—In  All  Saints'  Church,  Milton,  I  preached,  and  confirmed  one  per' 
8on. 

July  10,  Friday,  A.  M.—In  the  Church  of  the  Messiah,  Rhinebeck,  I 
preached,  confirmed  ^i;^,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.—In  the  Chapel  of  the  same  Parish,  at  Rhinecliff,  I  confirmed  five, 
and  addressed  them.  "  . 


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THE   BISHOP    OF   NEW-YOEK,  1868. 


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July  11,  Saturday,  A.  M.— In  St.  John's  Church/Kingston,  I  preached, 
confirmed  twenty-two^  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  Rondout,  I  preached,  confirmed 
thirty-three^  and  addressed  them. 

July  12,  Fifth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.~In  St.  Luke's  Church,  Cats- 
kill,  I  preached,  confirmed  eleven,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M. — In  Christ  Church,  Coxsackie,  I  preached,  confirmed  three,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

Evening.— In  Trinity  C'hurch,  Athens,  I  preached,  confirmed  nineteen, 
and  addressed  them. 

July  23,  Thursday,  A.  M.— In  Cold  Spring,  Putnam  County,  I  consecrated 
the  new  and  beautiful  Church  of  St.  Mary's  in  the  Highlands.  Sermon  by 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Swope,  of  Trinity  Parish,  New- York. 

July  31,  Friday,  A.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Transfiguration,  New-York, 
I  preached,  and  at  a  special  ordination  advanced  to  the  Priesthood  the  Rev. 
William  Hyde. 

Aug.  2,  Eighth  Sunday  after  Trinity.—-On  this  and  following  days  detained 
from  public  duty  by  Providential  circumstances. 

Aug.  9,  Ninth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Cross,  Warrensburgh,  I  preached  and  administered  the  Holy  Communion. 

Evening. — In  the  same  Church,  I  confirmed  six,  and  addressed  them. 

Aug.  11,  Tuesday,  Evening.— In  Trinity  Church,  Plattsburgh,  I  preached, 
confirmed /ot/r^ee/i,  and  addressed  them. 

Aug.  13,  Thursday,  A.  M.— In  St.  Mark's  Church,  Malone,  I  preached, 
confirmed  seventeen,  and  addressed  them.  i 

P.  M.— In  Trinity  Church,  Potsdam,  I  preached,  confirmed  eleven,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

Aug.  14,  Friday,  A.  M.— In  Grace  Church,  Canton,  I  preached,  confirmed 
eleven,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M. — In  Gouverneur,  I  preached,  confirmed  sixteen,  and  addressed  thera. 

Aug.  16,  Tenth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.— In  St.  John's  Church,  Og- 
densburgh,  I  preached,  confirmed  twenty-eight,  and  addressed  them. 

Aug.  23,  Eleventh  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.— In  St.  Mark's  Church, 
Hoosac  Falls,  I  preached,  confirmed  thirteen,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M. — In  the  Chapel  in  Hoosac  Village,  I  preached,  confirmed  fifteen^  and 
addressed  them. 

Aug.  25,  Tuesday,  A,  M. — In  Christ  Church,  Duanesburgh,  I  preached, 
iS(m.fiTV[iQdi  fifteen,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening. — In  Immanuel  Church,  Otego,  I  preached,  confirmed  twenty-five, 
{five  of  them  from  Oneonta,)  and  addressed  them. 

Aug.  26,  Wednesday,  A.  M.— In  St.  Paul's  Church,  Franklin,  I  preached, 
confirmed  eight,  and  addressed  them. 

Aug.  27,  Thursday,  A.  M.— In  Christ  Church,  Butternuts,  I  preached,  con- 
firmed twelve,  and  addressed  them. 

P.  M. — In  Zion  Church,  Morris,  I  preached,  confirmed  twenty-six,  and  ad- 
dressed them. 

Aug.  28,  Friday,  P.  M. — In  Christ  Church,  Cooperstown,  I  preached,  con- 
rmed  thirty-four,  and  addressed  them. 


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Aug.  29,  Saturday,  A.  M.— In  St.  Timothy's  Church,  Westford,  I  preached 
confirmed  three,  and  addressed  them. 

Aug.  30,  Twelfth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  P.  M.— In  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Cross,  New- York,  at  a  special  confirmation,  I  confirmed  three  persons. 

Sept.  1,  Tuesday,  A.  M.— In  St.  James'  Church,  Hyde  Park,  I  confirmed 
five,  and  addressed  them. 

Evening._In  Zion  Church,  Wappinger's  Falls,  I  confirmed  nine,  and  ad- 
dressed  them. 

Sept.  7,  Monday,  Evening.— In  Christ  Church,  Schenectady,  I  preached, 
confirmed  seven,  and  addressed  them.  This  is  a  new  and  thriving  congrega- 
tion, under  the  care  of  the  Rev.  Francis  C.  Wainwright,  which  has  erected  a 
beautiful  church-like  Chapel. 

Sept.  8,  Tuesday,  A.  M.— I  confirmed  eleven  in  St.  George's  Church,  Sche- 
nectady, and  addressed  them.  This  was  a  second  confirmation  of  the  year. 
On  the  same  occasion  I  attended  and  presided  at  a  meeting  of  the  Northern 
Convocation. 

Sept.  20,  Fifteenth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  A.  M.— In  St.  Paul's  Church, 
Albany,  I  preached. 

CANDIDATES  FOR  HOLY  ORDERS. 

The  following  is  a  complete  List  of  the  Candidates  for  Holy  Orders  in  this 
Diocese,  (including  those  admitted  since  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention 
in  October,)  with  the  dates  of  their  admission  respectively  :  being  m  all,  53. 

I.— CANDIDATES  FOR  DEACON'S  AND  PRIEST'S  ORDERS. 

Henry  Thomas  Hunter,  A.  M.,  January  2, 1862. 

Thomas  B.  Atkins,  October  16, 1863. 

Charles  B.  Smyth,  June  4, 1863. 

Nathaniel  Ellsworth  Cornwall,  A.  B.,  April  7,  1864. 

Ansel  Lamson,  A.  B.,  June  24,  1864. 

Claude  A.  S.  Howard,  November  5,  1863. 

Allan  Napier,  A.  B.,  February  2, 1865. 

James  Madison  Collins,  A.  B.,  May  3,  1866. 

Wilham  Hyde,  A.  B.,  June  7,  1866. 

Henry  Ainsworth  Parker,  A.  B.,  June  7, 1866." 

Isaac  Lewis  Trowbridge,  M.  D.,  June  7,  1866. 

Robert  Shaw  Locke,  A.  B.,  October  4, 1866. 

Stephen  McNulty,  A.  B.,  October  4,  1866. 

Isaac  Van  Winkle,  A.  B.,  October  4,  1866. 

Charles  S.  Knapp,  A.  B.,  October  4,  1866. 

William  Henry  Groser,  A.  B.,  November  1,  1866. 

Peter  Augustus  Jay,  A.  B.,  November  1,  1866. 

Arthur  Clifford  Kimber,  A.  B.,  November  1, 1866. 

Edward  Clark  Houghton,  A.  B.,  December  6,  1863. 

Dan  Marvin,  A.  M.,  December  6,  1866. 

Henry  A.  Dows,  A.  B.,  January  3, 1867. 


50  ANNUAL  ADDEESS   OF 

Clement  J.  Whipple,  February  7, 1867. 

Edward  Keeler  Olmstead,  April  4, 1867. 

William  Bollard,  November  7, 1867. 

John  Alexander  Denniston,  A.  B.,  November  7, 1867. 

Albert  Steele  Hull,  A.  B.,  November  7, 1867. 

William  Curtis  Prout,  A.  B.,  November  7, 1867. 

George  Dent  Silliman,  A.  B.,  November  7, 1867. 

William  Skene,  November  7, 1867. 

Morris  Ashurst  Tyng,  A.  B.,  November  7, 1867. 

■Pr^i^r.^  ■R,^^+r^T^  i  ^-  Deacon's  Orders,  October  3, 1867. 
Kooert  J5oiton,  -j  ^  p^est's  Orders,  December  5, 1867. 

George  Clarke  Houghton,  A.  B.,  December  5, 1867. 

Dominic  McCafiry,  December  5, 1867. 

Edward  Southgate,  A.  B.,  December  5, 1867. 

Henry  Courtenay  At  wood,  February  6, 1868. 

Samuel  Smith  Harris,  A.  M.,  February  6, 1868. 

Joseph  Bloomfield  Wetherill,  April  2, 1868. 

George  Herbert  Watson,  A.  B.,  June  4, 1868. 

T^ ,        1  A    ^   4.      T?  1     «4^       i  C.  Deacon's  Orders,  March  9, 1867. 
Edward  Augustus  Edgerton,  |^   p^.^^^,^  ^^^^^^^  'j^^^  ^^  -^^gg 

Joel  Davis,  April  9, 1868. 

Henry  V.  Degen,  June  4, 1868. 

Eugene  L.  Toy,  A.  B.,  September  24, 1868. 

Arthur  Eitcliie,  A.  B.,  October  15, 1868. 

Arthur  Sloan,  A.  B.,  October  15, 1868. 

Edward  Benedict,  A.  B.,  November  5, 1868. 

Anson  R.  Graves,  A.  B.,  November  5, 1868. — 46. 


n. — CANDIDATES  FOR  DEACON  S  ORDERS. 

Not  having  passed  any  Literary  Examination : 

John  Kimber,  December  9, 1865. 

Thomas  W.  Berry,  June  19, 1867. 

Thomas  James  McFaddin,  July  2,  1868. 

John  Davidson  Rockwell,  July  2, 1868. 

Isaac  Maguire,  September  24, 1868. 

John  Pickavant  Crawford,  November  5, 1868. 

Charles  Ferris,  November  5, 1868. — 7. 

CANDIDATES  FOR  HOLY  ORDERS  ORDAINED 

DEACONS. 

I. — The  Candidates  for  Deacon's  and  Priest's  Orders,  named  below,  have 
passed  the  examination  required  by  Canon  VUI.,  Section  3,  and  Section  7, 
Title  I.,  of  the  Digest  of  the  Canons  of  the  General  Convention,  and  have 
been  ordained  to  the  Diaconate  : 

1868.    February  23.    Mr.  MelviUe  C.  Keith. 


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1868.    June 


Mr.  William  Henry  Capers. 

Charles  Bouton  Coffin. 

Gouverneur  Cruger,  A.  M. 

Henry  L.  Foote. 

John  Moore  Heffernan,  A.  B. 

Mortimer  A.  Hyde,  A.  M. 

Robert  C.  Mcllwain,  A.  B. 

E.  Huntington  Saunders,  A.  B. 

George  Henry  Smith,  A.  B. 

William  Bogert  Walker,  A.  B. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Miller,  for  the  Bishop  of  Mas- 
sachusetts, at  his  request. 

William  B.  Bolmer,  by  the  Bishop  of  Wisconsin, 
at  my  request.-— 13. 

n.--The  Candidate  named  below  has  not  yet  passed  the  three  exanuna- 
tions  for  Priest  s  Orders ;  and  has  been  ordained  to  the  restricted  Diaconate  : 

1868.    January  19.    Mr.  George  Fisher.— 1. 

DEACONS  ADVANCED  TO  THE  PRIESTHOOD. 

The  Deacons  named  below  have  been  ordained  to  the  Holy  Order  of 
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The  Rev.  William  Leacock. 

The  Rev.  Francis  Fenelon  Rice. 

The  Rev.  Toliver  Franklin  Caskey. 

The  Rev.  James  Murray,  by  Right  Rev.  Bishop  South- 

gate,  at  my  request. 
The  Rev.  Solomon  F.  Dunham. 
The  Rev.  Frederick  B.  Van  Kleeck. 
The  Rev.  Henry  Duyckinck. 
The  Rev.  Charles  Aldis  Wenman. 
The  Rev.  Joseph  Warren  Hill. 
The  Rev.  Wm.  Neilson  McVickar. 
The  Rev.  WilHam  Hyde.— 11. 


RESIGNATION"  OP  PARISHES. 


I  have  received  Notice  of  the  Resignation,  by  the  Clergymen  named  be- 
low,  ot  the  Parishes  or  Cures  respectively  mentioned : 

The  Rev.  Samuel  G.  Appleton,  of  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Paul's  Church 
Mornsama.  ' 

The  Rev.  J.  B.  C.  Beaubien,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  the  Church  of  the  Aa 
cension.  New- York. 

The  Rev.  William  Binet,  of  the  charge  of  Grace  Church,  Canton. 


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The  Rev.  John  Boyle,  of  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Hobart. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  McKee  Brown,  of  the  Rectorship  of  Trinity  Church,  East 
New-York. 

The  Rev.  William  P.  Brown,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  the  Church  of  the 
Ascension,  New-York. 

The  Rev.  Clarence  Buel,  of  the  charge  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  Cambridge. 

The  Rev.  J.  Barnwell  Campbell,  of  the  charge  of  the  Chapel  of  the  Holy 
Saviour,  New- York. 

The  Rev,  John  J.  Elmendorf,  of  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Innocents,  New-York. 

The  Rev.  Charles  C.  Fiske,  of  the  charge  of  St.  John's  Church,  Essex. 

The  Rev.  Byron  J.  Hall,  of  the  Rectorship  of  St.  John's  Chufch,  Delhi. 

The  Rev.  John  H.  Hopkins,  as  Assistant  to  the  Rector  of  St.  Timothy's 
Church,  New-York. 

The  Rev.  Theodore  Irving,  LL.  D.,  of  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the 
Mediator,  New- York. 

The  Rev.  William  Leacock,  as  an  officiating  Minister  of  Trinity  Parish, 
New-York. 

The  Rev.  N.  F.  Ludlum,  of  the  Rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  Warwick. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  Mowbray,  of  the  Rectorship  of  Grace  Church,  Harlem. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Newby,  of  the  charge  9f  St.  Paul's  Church,  Pleasant 
Valley. 

The  Rev.  Eugene  C.  Pattison,  of  the  charge  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Lith- 
gow. 

The  Rev.  Cliarles  C.  Phelps,  of  the  Rectorship  of  All  Angels'  Church,  New- 
York. 

The  Rev.  Sylvanus  Reed,  of  the  Rectorship  of  the  Free  Church  of  St. 
George's  Chapel,  New-York. 

The  Rev.  E.  Franklin  Remmgton,  of  the  charge  of  the  Church  of  the 
Atonement,  Brooklyn. 

The  Rev.  John  J.  Roberts,  of  the  Rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  Ramapo. 

The  Rev.  Charles  F.  Robertson,  of  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Mark's  Church, 
Malone. 

The  Rev.  Washington  Rodman,  of  the  Rectorship  of  Grace  Church,  West 
Farms. 

The  Rev.  N.  W.  Taylor  Root,  of  the  Rectorship  of  St.  James'  Church. 
Newtown. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Seabury,  D.  D.,  of  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the 
Annunciation,  New-York. 

The  Rev.  Edward  Syle,  of  the  Rectorship  of  Oirist  Church,  Pelham. 

The  Rev.  James  Thomson,  of  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Matthew's  Church 
Brooklyn. 

The  Rev.  Elias  Weil,  of  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  Clermont. 

The  Rev.  Chas.  A.  Wenman,as  Assistant  Minister  of  Grace  Church,  Brook 
lyn  Heights. 

The  Rev.  Chas.  S.  Williams,  of  the  Rectorship  of  St.  James'  Church,  Smith- 
town. 


The  Rev.  George  Worthington,  of  the  Rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  Ball- 
ston  Spa. 

The  Rev.  John  F.  Potter,  of  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Cross, 
Warrensburgh. 

The  Rev.  Mason  Gallagher,  of  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the  Evan- 
gelists,  Brooklyn.— 34. 

CLERGYMEN"  APPOINTED  TO  CURES. 

In  behalf  of  the  Clergymen  named  below,  I  have  received  the  Canonical 
Certificate  of  the  election  or  appointment  to  the  Cures  respectively  mentioned. 
In  each  case  I  have  certified  that  the  person  so  chosen  is  a  qualified  Minister 
of  this  Church,  and  transmitted  the  certificate  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Con- 
vention  for  record  by  him,  according  to  the  requirement  of  the  Canon : 

The  Rev.  A.  Herbert  Gessner,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Grace  Church,  West 
Farms. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  N.  McVickar,  as  Assistant  to  the  Rector  of  St.  George's 
Church,  New- York. 

The  Rev.  Nathan  H.  Chamberlain,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Trinity  Church, 
Morrisania. 

The  Rev.  John  C.  Eccleston,  M.  D.,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  John's  Church 
Clifton. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  Dymond,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  York- 
ville. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  D'O.  Doty,  to  the  Rectorship  of  All  Saints'  Church,  Brook- 
lyn. 

The  Rev.  Byron  J.  Hall,  to  tlie  Rectorship  of  Trinity  Church,  Lansiug- 
burgh. 

The  Rev.  Toliver  F.  Caskey,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  the  Church  of  the 
Holy  Trinity,  New- York. 

The  Rev.  Charles  C.  Tifiany,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  James'  Church,  Ford- 
ham. 

The  Rev.  S.  F.  Dunham,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  Christ  Church,  New- York. 
The  Rev.  A.  Floridus  Steele,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  Paul's  Church, 
Albany. 

The  Rev.  Francis  C.  Wainwright,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Christ  Church, 
Schenectady. 

The  Rev.  Chas.  S.  Williams,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Matthew's  Church, 
Brooklyn. 

The  Rev.  Lewis  H.  Lighthipe,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  Morris. 
The  Rev.  William  Leacock,  to  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Comforter,  Eltingville. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Drumm,  M.  D.,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  George's 
Church,  Flushing. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Carmichael,  D.  D.,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  Trinity 
Church,  Rockaway. 


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The  Rev.  Henry  Duyckinck,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  tlie  Cliurcliof  the 
Holy  Martyrs,  New- York. 

The  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.  B.,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Grace  Church,  New- 
York. 

The  Rev.  James  E.  Homans,  to  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the  Medi- 
ator, New- York. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  H.  Reid,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  Ann's  Church,  Brook- 
Ivn. 

The  Rev.  John  Henry  Hopkins,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  Christ  Church, 
Rouse's  Point. 

The  Rev.  Frederick  W.  Shelton,  LL.  D.,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Mark's 
Church,  Carthage  Landing, 

Tlie  Rev.  James  Murray,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  Zion  Church,  New-York. 

The  Rev.  W.  A.  W.  Maybin,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Wil- 
liamsburgh. 

The  Rev.  William  J.  Schonler,  Jr.,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Stephen's 
Church,  Brooklyn. 

The  Rev.  De  Witt  C.  Loop,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  Grace  Church,  Brook- 
lyn Heights. 

The  Rev.  William  S.  Chadwell,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Grace  Qiurch,  Wil 
liamsburgh. 

The  Rev.  E.  S.  Widdemer,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  Troy. 

The  Rev.  William  J.  Seabury,  to  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the  An- 
nunciation, New- York. 

The  Rev.  Francis  Harison,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  the  Church  of  the  An- 
nunciation, New- York. 

The  Rev.  Henry  H.  Prout,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Trinity  Church,  Windham. 

The  Rev.  Robert  E.  Dennison,  Deacon,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  Zion 
Church,  New- York. 

The  Rev.  Edgar  T.  Chapman,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Mark's  Church, 
Green  It^lund. 

The  Rev.  Charles  A.  Wenman,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Luke's  Church, 
Cambridge. 

The  Rev.  Lewis  P.  Clover,  D.  D.,  to  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the 
Messiah,  Greenbush. 

The  Rev.  John  B.  Morgan,  Deacon,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  Thomas' 
Church,  New- York. 

The  Rev.  J.  B.  C.  Beaubien,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  Thomas'  Church, 
New-York. 

The  Rev.  Edwin  Slade,  to  the  Rectorsliip  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  Middle- 
burgh. 

The  Rev.  William  Hyde,  to  the  Rectorsliip  of  the  Church  of  the  Atonement, 
South  Brooklyn. 

The  Rev.  Elias  Weil,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  John's  Church,  Essex. 

The  Rev.  John  M.  Heffernan,  Deacon,  as  Rector  elect  of  All  Angels'  Church, 
New-York. 


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The  Rev.  Abbott  Brown,  to  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the  Reforma 
tion.  New- York. 

The  Rev.  Mortimer  A.  Hyde,  Deacon,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  Mark's 
Church,  Williamsburgh. 

The  Rev.  Alfred  Brown,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  John's  Church 
Clifton.  ' 

The  Rev.  Charles  W.  Homer,  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  James'  Church 
Brooklyn.  ' 

The  Rev.  Thomas  G.  Valpy,  Deacon,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  the  Church  of 
the  Holy  Trinity,  Brooklyn. 
The  Rev.  Henry  H.  Oberly,  Deacon  in  Trinity  Parish,  New-York. 

The  Rev.  George  H.  Bugbee,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Christ  Church  Man- 
hasset.  ' 

The  Rev.  William  M.  Postlethwaite,  to  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of 
Our  Saviour,  Brooklyn. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  McKee  Brown,  as  Assistant  Minister  of  Christ  Church 
New-York. 

The  Rev.  Charles  Seymour,  to  the  Rectorship  of  Trinity  Church,  Mount 
Vernon.— 52. 


CLERGYMEN^  RECEIVED  INTO  THE  DIOCESE. 

The  Clergymen  named  below  have  been  received  into  the  Diocese  upon 
Letters  Dimissory  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Dioceses  respectively 
mentioned.    I  have  given  to  them  the  Canonical  Certificate  of  their  reception : 


The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 


Edwin  Slade,  from  Ontario,  C.  W. 

J.  Radcliff  Davenport,  from  Maryland. 

John  M.  Leavitt,  from  Ohio. 

Henry  H.  Oberly,  Deacon,  from  Pennsylvania. 

John  C.  Eccleston,  M.  D.,  from  Massachusetts. 

Charles  C.  Tiffany,  from  Pennsylvania. 

James  E.  Homans,  from  Ohio. 

S.  F.  Dunham,  Deacon,  from  Western  New-York. 

William  Schonler,  Jr.,  from  New-Hampshire. 

William  H.  Reid,  from  Delaware. 
George  G.  Hepburn,  from  New-Jersey. 
WilUam  D'O.  Doty,  from  Massachusetts. 
Lewis  H.  Lighthipe,  from  New-Jersey. 
D.  Brainerd  Ray,  from  Pennsylvania. 
Edward  N.  Goddard,  from  Montana. 
Montgomery  R.  Hooper,  from  New  Jersey. 
Nathaniel  L.  Briggs,  from  Maine. 
A.  Herbert  Gessner,  from  Western  New- York. 
Francis  C.  Wainwright,  from  Vermont. 
A.  Floridus  Steele,  from  Connecticut. 


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Oii  ANNUAL   ADDRESS   OF 

Tlie  Rev.  Alfred  Brown,  from  Nova  Scotia. 

The  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.  D.,  from  Massacliusetts. 

The  Rev.  A.  D.  McCoy,  from  Louisiana. 

The  Rev.  Justin  P.  Kellopfg,  from  Pennsylvania. 

The  Rev.  W.  A.  W.  Maybin,  from  New-Jersey. 

The  Rev,  Daniel  F.  Warren,  D.  D.,  from  New- Jersey. 

The  Rev.  George  D.  Wildes,  from  Massachusetts. 

The  Rev.  Theodore  Seibt,  from  Wisconsin. 

The  Rev.  Hiram  H.  Cole,  from  Illinois. 

The  Rev.  James  P.  Franks,  Deacon,  from  Pennsylvania. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Cox,  D.  D.,  from  New-Jersey. 

The  Rev.  Lewis  P.  Clover,  D.  D.,  from  Massachusetts. 

The  Rev.  William  S.  Rowe,  from  Indiana. 

The  Rev.  Southard  Compton,  D.  D.,  from  New-Hampshire. 

The  Rev.  Romaine  S.  Mansfield,  Deacon,  from  New-Jersey. 

The  Rev.  Charles  Sevmour,  from  Louisiana. 

The  Rev.  John  F.  Winkley,  from  Indiana. 

The  Rev.  Nathan  H.  C'hamberlain,  from  Connecticut. 

The  Rev.  Frederick  W.  Shelton,  LL.  D.,  from  Massachusetts. 

The  Rev.  De  Witt  C.  Loop,  from  Western  New- York. 

The  Rev.  Joseph  M.  Waite,  from  New-Jersey. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  G.  Valpy,  Deacon,  from  New-Hampshire. 

The  Rev.  John  Irving  Forbes,  Deacon,  from  Pennsylvania. 

The  Rev.  Robert  E.  Dennison,  Deacon,  from  Western  New- York. 

The  Rev.  Daniel  Ellis  Willes,  from  California. 

The  Rev.  F.  Marion  McAllister,  from  Georgia. — 46. 

CLERGYMEN  DECEASED. 

Since  the  last  Convention,  the  following  Clergymen  have  departed  this 
life : 

The  Rev.  Henry  H.  Bates. 

The  Rev.  William  G.  Heyer. 

The  Rev.  Ormond  H.  Dutton. 

The  Rev.  John  Grigg. 

The  Rev.  George  Harden  Crowe,  Deacon. — 5. 


CLERGYMEN  DEPOSED. 

In  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  Canon  V.,  Title  II.,  Digest  of  the  Canons 
of  the  General  Convention,  on  the  8th' day  of  July,  1867, 1  deposed  from  the 
ministry  the  Clergymen  named  below,  who  had  declared  their  renunciation 
of  the  same,  viz. : 

The  Rev.  David  Margot. 
The  Rev.  Charles  Purviance. 
The  Rev.  John  Boyle.— 3. 


THE   BISHOP   OP   NEW- YORK,    1868. 


LETTERS  DIMISSORY  GRANTED. 


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I  have  granted  Letters  Dimissory,  at  their  request,  to  the  Clergymen 
named  below,  and  have  received  notice  of  the  acceptance  of  tlie  same  from 
the  respective  Ecclesiastical  Authorities,  viz. : 


The  Rev. 

The  Rev. 

The  Rev. 

The  Rev. 

The  Rev. 

The  Rev. 

The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 
The  Rev. 


T.  Robinson  Harris,  to  Massachusetts. 

Robert  McMurdy,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  to  New-Jersey. 

Robert  Lowry,  to  California. 

William  Mowbray,  to  Tennessee. 

George  W.  Porter,  D.  D.,  to  New-Hampshire. 

Edward  R.  Atwill,  to  Vermont. 

John  Scarborough,  to  Pittsburgh. 

Erastus  W.  Spalding,  Deacon,  to  Wisconsin. 

Alonzo  M.  May,  Deacon,  to  Iowa. 

James  Hoyt  Smith,  Deacon,  to  California. 

Lawrence  H.  Mills,  to  Connecticut. 

George  C.  Griswold,  to  Illinois. 

Melville  C.  Keith,  Deacon,  to  Texas. 

Charles  A.  Holbrook,  Deacon,  to  Connecticut. 

Eugene  C.  Pattison,  to  Connecticut. 

John  Rutherford  IMatthows,  to  New-Jersey. 

Wm.  Welles  Holly,  to  New-Jersey. 

John  J.  Elmendorf,  D.  D.,  to  Wisconsin. 

Royal  Marshall,  to  Massachusetts. 

Joseph  W.  Hyde,  to  Connecticut. 

Henry  L.  Foote,  Deacon,  to  Montana,  &c. 

Edw.  M.  Pecke,  to  Connecticut. 

N.  W.  Taylor  Root,  to  Maine. 

J.  B.  Colhoun,  to  Western  Now- York. 

Edward  N.  Goddard,  to  Montana,  &c 

George  Worthington,  to  Michigan. 

Mason  Gallagher,  to  New-Jersey. 

James  H.  Kidder,  to  Western  New- York. 

Thomas  Drumm,  to  Western  New- York. 

Charles  F.  Robertson,  to  Western  New- York. — 30. 


ALSO,  CANDIDATE  FOR  DEACON'S  AND  PEIEST'S  ORDERS. 

Joseph  M.  Turner,  to  Pennsylvania. 

NEW  PARISHES :  INCORPORATIOISr  APPROVED, 

Consent  has  been  given  to  the  Incorporation  of  the  following  Parishes,  viz. 

St.  Mark's  Church,  Carthage  Landing,  Fishkill,  Dutchess  County. 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  Brooklyn,  Kings  County. 

St.  John's  Church,  Greenwood  Works,  Orange  County. — 3. 


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ANNUAL   ADDRESS    OF   THE    BISHOP. 


CHURCHES  CONSECRATED. 

Since  the  last  Convention,  tlie  following  Cliurclies  have  been  consecrated  : 

1868.  June    G.    The  Church  of  the  Holy  Comforter,  Eltingville,  South- 
field,  Richmond  County. 
July  33.    St.  Mary's  in  the  Highlands,  Cold    Spring,  Putnam 
County. — 2. 


RITMMAKY. 


The  following  is  a  Summary  of  Episcopal  Acts  in  the  Diocese 
since  the  last  Convention  : 


!N'umber  of  persons  Coniirmecl, 
Candidates  Ordained  to  the  Diaconate,  . 
Candidates  Ordained  to  the  Priesthood,  . 

Ordinations,  total, 

Churches  Consecrated,     .... 

Clergymen  received  from  other  Dioceses, 
"  transferred  to     "  " 

"  deposed,  •        •        •        . 


3,930 


14 
11 


25 

2 

46 

31 

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HORATIO  POTTER,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  D.  C.  L., 

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